I'm not sure where Yum gets that, but there is an /etc/redhat-release that contains that information, perhaps it is getting it there? Quoting "Smith, Craig A (MN14)" <Craig.A.Smith at honeywell.com>: > I have a couple old systems that were upgraded from Red Hat 7.2 to 7.3. > The Fedora Legacy Project says they will discontinue support for Red Hat > Linux 7.3 and 9 effective December 31st of this year (2006). > http://fedoralegacy.org/ > > I want to do one final update, but yum still thinks it's running 7.2. > Where does Yum get the $releasever variable? > > # cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.20-28.7 (bhcompile at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc > version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-126)) #1 Thu Dec 18 > 11:31:59 EST 2003 > > # yum update > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 base > Getting headers from: Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux 7.2 > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > No Packages Available for Update > No actions to take > > # cat /etc/yum.conf > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > exactarch=1 > exclude=kernel* > > [base] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base > baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch > gpgcheck=1 > > [updates] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates > baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$bas > earch > gpgcheck=1 > > [legacy-utils] > name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever > baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils > /$basearch > gpgcheck=1 > > > Thanks. > > == Craig A. Smith > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >