[CentOS] yum $releasever thinks it's 1 instead of 3

Wed Oct 10 13:04:50 UTC 2007
Bent Terp <bent at nagstrup.dk>

On 10/10/07, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded one of my Tao boxes to Centos 3. The usual procedure is
> to do a yum update twice, and all is fine.
>
> This time, I had to rebuilddb before I could run the second yum update,
> and once I started this, yum fails. It says that $releasever is "1.0".
>
> Now I realize I could manually edit my yum.conf and make it go to 3, but
> this may not fix the problem down the road. Can someone tell me where
> this variable is defined, and any suggestions on how to fix this
> problem, please? Might a reinstall of yum packages fix this, as a last
> resort?

I think it's parsed from /etc/redhat-release
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)

regards,
  Bent

>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Steve Campbell
>
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