[WBEL-users] updates

[Thomas E Dukes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:23 AM
> To: WhiteBox Users
> Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] updates
> 
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 07:08 -0400, Thomas E Dukes wrote:
> >  
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg Knaddison [mailto:greg.knaddison at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:21 AM
> > > To: Thomas E Dukes
> > > Cc: Jean Lee; whitebox-users at beau.org
> > > Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] updates
> > > 
> > > On 6/29/05, Thomas E Dukes <edukes at alltel.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I was taking your advice and started configuring yum.  First, I 
> > > > renamed /etc/yum.repos.d/wbelmirrors.yum to
> > > wbelmirrors.repo as yum.conf directs.
> > > > 
> > > > For some reason, yum is looking for wbel 2 instead of wbel
> > > 4.  To my
> > > > knowledge, I didn't think there was a wbel 2.  I believe it
> > > is getting '2'
> > > > from Fedora 2 (the OS previously installed), but from
> > > where, I don't know.
> > > > I tried changing $releasever in wbelmirrors to '4' but 
> that didn't 
> > > > work either.
> > > 
> > > Can you post the full error message?  That would be 
> extremely helpful.
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have tinkered a little since my last post.  I removed the 
> > fedora-release rpm and now get a different but similar error.  This 
> > was an upgrade from Fedora 2. A clean install was not an 
> option as I 
> > run 4 websites off this system.
> > 
> > Instead of yum looking for '2' as the $releasever as previously 
> > posted, now that I have removed the fedora-release .rpm, it now 
> > indicates 'Null' as the release version.  I re-installed 
> the wbel-release .rpm but to no effect.
> > There is no yum error log.  It looks for the 'Null' 
> directory on each 
> > mirror but errors because it cannot change to that 
> directory because 
> > it does not exist.
> > 
> > There has to be another package I need to install to 
> correct this but 
> > I can't figure which one.  I have the current versions of 
> wbel-release 
> > and yum installed.
> > 
> > Again, thanks for everyone's help!
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Also, did you do some sort of "upgrade" from Fedora to 
> WBEL or did 
> > > you completely wipe the disk clean and start over with WBEL?  If  
> > > you did an "upgrade" then you are more likely to have a 
> variety of 
> > > problems that we may not be able to solve.
> > > If you can, I would recommend a "clean" install where you 
> remove all 
> > > previous partitions.  If you did remove the previous partitions, 
> > > great!  That will make troubleshooting and getting things working 
> > > that much easier.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Greg
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> whitebox-release

Hello,

Yes, it is already installed.

Thanks
>