How do I change the releasever variable

[Jongi]

I was doing a preupgrade from f12 to f13. That was interrupted by a power cut. When I tried to redo it by booting from the grub option, it failed (can't remember the error). I then re-ran preupgrade, but got the "the root for the previously installed system was not found" error even though the UUID was correct and even when I referenced the partion by device - /dev/sda14.

So I decided to go old school:
1. yum update
2. change the repos manually to reference f13
3. yum update

So as it stands these are seemingly the only remaining f12 packages

# yum list | grep fc12 | grep installed
bea-stax.x86_64                           1.2.0-0.5.rc1.fc12           installed
bea-stax-api.x86_64                       1.2.0-0.5.rc1.fc12           installed
gtkimageview.x86_64                       1.6.3-2.fc12                 installed
                                          1:195.36.31-1.fc12           installed
libEMF.x86_64                             1.0.4-1.fc12                 installed
libwpg.x86_64                             0.1.3-4.fc12                 installed
nas-libs.x86_64                           1.9.1-6.fc12                 installed
portaudio.x86_64                          19-9.fc12                    installed
pstoedit.x86_64                           3.45-9.fc12                  installed
smp_utils.x86_64                          0.94-3.fc12                  installed
telepathy-filesystem.noarch               0.0.2-1.fc12                 installed

but i am guessing due to the interrupted preupgrade, the releasever variable has not been updated. How can I manually do that?

[PabloTwo]

As far as I know, yum gets it's $releasever info from /etc/fedora-release. What do you get with,

rpm -q fedora-release
ls /etc/*release
cat /etc/*release

[Jongi]

The output is below

main ~ # rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-12-2.noarch
fedora-release-13-1.noarch

main ~ # ls /etc/*release
/etc/fedora-release  /etc/redhat-release  /etc/system-release

main ~ # cat /etc/*release
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

main ~ # echo $releasever

A further interrogation of fedora-release shows

main ~ # yum list fedora-release
Installed Packages
fedora-release.noarch                               12-2                               @updates 
fedora-release.noarch                               13-1                               installed

And the main reason why I want to make the change

main ~ # yum repolist
repo id                            repo name                                              status
fedora                             Fedora 12 - x86_64                                     20,840
livna                              rpm.livna.org for 12 - x86_64                               3
rpmfusion-free                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free                           457
rpmfusion-free-updates             RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Updates                 865
rpmfusion-nonfree                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree                        156
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates          RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - Updates              302
updates                            Fedora 12 - x86_64 - Updates                            8,755

[PabloTwo]

Hmmm... updating to fedora-release-13-1.noarch package should have replaced the fedora-release-12-2.noarch package. I suppose the interrupted preupgrade caused that mis-fire. Installing the -13 release file should/would have overwritten most of the -12 release files, including the repo files. You try,

yum erase fedora-release-12-2.noarch

You might want to first download and have on hand the fedora-release-13-1.noarch.rpm package, just in case.

I just did this,

BASH:~/-> rpm -ql fedora-release
/etc/fedora-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-12-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/rpm/macros.dist
/etc/system-release
/etc/system-release-cpe
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-12
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-12/GPL

[Jongi]

I get the below

main ~ # rpm -ql fedora-release
/etc/fedora-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-12-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/rpm/macros.dist
/etc/system-release
/etc/system-release-cpe
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-12
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-12/GPL
/etc/fedora-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-SPARC
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/rpm/macros.dist
/etc/system-release
/etc/system-release-cpe
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-13
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-13/GPL

So i decided to reboot into the f13 kernel. last time i tried NetworkManager wasn't giving me a network connection even though its status was running. The second boot however seems to have gone without a hitch.

yum repolist still shows references to f12 (and it is use $releasever and $basearch) for the various repos.

So I did a yum clean all and yum repolist, and part of the return is

fedora                                                                   | 4.2 kB     00:00     
http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/5cba24ab31a5e98f382ac49c9fffbe443749e889a777e0dbc4aa70d20104d20b-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 200 : http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/5cba24ab31a5e98f382ac49c9fffbe443749e889a777e0dbc4aa70d20104d20b-primary.sqlite.bz2

---------- Post added at 09:58 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 09:31 PM CDT ----------

yum reinstall fedora-release and a reboot did the trick

[PabloTwo]

Good. I did a test try of "yum erase fedora-release" just now and it wanted to take out 192 other packages with it. I was going to suggest a 'yum reinstall fedora-release' and a reboot next, but you beat me to it.

[Jongi]

Good. I did a test try of "yum erase fedora-release" just now and it wanted to take out 192 other packages with it. I was going to suggest a 'yum reinstall fedora-release' and a reboot next, but you beat me to it.

yeah i tried the remove first and it also wanted to wipe a chunk of the system.

edit: what does the below mean

Installed Packages
yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch                    1.1.26-1.fc12                     @updates/12
yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch                    1.1.27-2.fc13                     installed

are both packages installed?

---------- Post added 2010-08-01 at 02:14 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was 2010-07-31 at 10:02 PM CDT ----------

another thing I had not used my F12 install since soon after f12 was releasee