Preupgrade worked but did not reconfigure repos

[harshad1]

Hi all

I just updated to fedora 17 (from 16, using preupgrade). It all seems to have worked - I am definately running gnome shell 3.4 and everything appears to be stable.

However, preupgrade did not reconfigure my repos and I still have the fc16 repos.

How do I update them to the fc17 repos?

Thanks

[DaFoot]

Doesn't yum use a variable from somewhere to work out which version it is updating?
What have you got in your .repo files that suggests they are FC16 only?

[jsn255]

I had same problem and fixed it like this: nano /etc/yum/vars/releasever and put number 17 in the file
then i removed the fedora-release-16.1.noarch file with yum. After that I deleted the releasever file (so it wont keep being static 17 in future). Then it all seemed to work. Yum seems to sniff the version number from the fedora-release package.

There might be some better ways to do this, but this was only way i figured out for now.

Btw. you might have some kernel issues too, check if your kernel is actually f17 not f16.

[harshad1]

Originally Posted by jsn255

I had same problem and fixed it like this: nano /etc/yum/vars/releasever and put number 17 in the file
then i removed the fedora-release-16.1.noarch file with yum. After that I deleted the releasever file (so it wont keep being static 17 in future). Then it all seemed to work. Yum seems to sniff the version number from the fedora-release package.

There might be some better ways to do this, but this was only way i figured out for now.

Btw. you might have some kernel issues too, check if your kernel is actually f17 not f16.

Strangely enough, I created the file but when I searched for the release it told me that the version for 17 was installed. Then I checked repolist and the repos were all magically 17 now.