On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:59:36AM -0400, Steve Campbell enlightened us: > 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? > > Thanks very much. > (Manually) get the centos-release rpm and install that, it should handle the rest for you. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263