up2date bug in RHEL4

Joshua Daniel Franklin jdf.lists at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 13:38:55 CST 2007


Hello, I just found an issue that might be the root cause of RHEL4 problems;
"releasever" is hard-coded as 3 in
/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py

I noticed that up2date said it was pulling from
http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/mirrors-el3.txt
and wondered where the 3 came from. Eventually I found it:

grep -A3 FIXME /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/sourcesConfig.py
        #FIXME:
        releasever = "3"

I opened a bug, but in the meantime it might be best to hard-code el4
in dell-repository.el4

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229847


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