up2date bug in RHEL4

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:38:55AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> 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

Doh. I looked through that code when we were developing the new dell-repository file. I think I saw that it is updated later on using the RPM which provides redhat-release. Or maybe I was just missing something.

I'll have to figure out a nice way to fix this.

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

Thanks,
Michael

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