2009/4/26 Sam Piippo <sampiippo at gmail.com> > After installing clean Centos 5.3 and updating with "yum update" yum starts > to fail. I get the following error message > > > YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. > Eg. 7 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/ > removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: > //var/cache/yum/base/mirrorlist.txt > > It looks like the $releasever variable has value 7. Why does this happen > and how do I fix this? > Check that distroverpkg in /etc/yum.conf is redhat-release, if it is, check that centos-release is the only package providing redhat-release by running rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release, you should see centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1 which shows a single package and the version is 5, this is what yum uses to determine releasever... Do you have another package installed that also provides redhat-release? d -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090426/9c19258c/attachment-0005.html>