[WBEL-users] Trying to install yum on wbel 4

[William Hooper]

Will McDonald wrote:
[snip]
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
>
> ... yum uses the major version number of this RPM to figure out what
> OS version it's using. From the yum.conf man page...
>
>
> distroverpkg The package used by yum to determine the "version" of the
> distribution. This can   be any installed package. Default is
> 'red-hat-release'.
>
>
> To work properly with Whitebox it needs to be...
>
>
> distroverpkg=whitebox-release

Not really.  whitebox-release just needs to provide redhat-release.  I
thought John had said he would add that before releasing the final.

-- 
William Hooper