[Cialug] A word to the wise

Tom Pohl tom at tcpconsulting.com
Tue Mar 20 08:36:36 CDT 2007


I will admit, this picture did pop into mind, almost instantly last  
night:

http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

:)

-Tom

On Mar 20, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Dave Weis wrote:

>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Tom Pohl wrote:
>> Tonight, I learned an important lesson about redhat type boxes and  
>> yum!
>> Yum apparently uses /etc/redhat-release to tell what version and  
>> flavor distro you are using.  If you change /etc/redhat-release to  
>> reflect a certain "compatible" version of a different redhat  
>> operating system (say redhat-4 instead of fedora core 5 (or even  
>> 6)), make sure you change it BACK before next running yum update.
>
> "Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon. ..." :-)
>
> -- 
> Dave Weis
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