On 01/10/14 11:02, lejeczek wrote:
> On 30/09/14 12:24, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
>> Hi lejeczek!
>>
>>   On 2014.09.30 at 11:51:05 +0100, lejeczek wrote next:
>>
>>> you probably have notice yum broke repos config or/and 
>>> something broke in
>>> repos configs or/and in yum
>>> and you get funky urls:
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%24slreleasever/x86_64/os/Packages/minicom-2.6.2-5.el7.x86_64.rpm: 
>>>
>>> [Errno 14] FTP Error 550 - Server denied you to change 
>>> to the given
>>> directory
>>>
>>> quick workaround is to use:
>>> /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever # and value in it
>> This happened to me after I removed yum-conf-sl7x package 
>> after updating
actually, the package you mention seems to does exactly it, 
it puts /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever  - so removing it would 
have inverse effect
>> to RC1 (why? Well, that's how I interpreted release notes
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7.0/x86_64/release-notes/ 
>>
>> - that I should remove that package to get proper updates 
>> after RC
>> release).
> well, the thing is I did not remove anything, I've been on 
> 7roling and after yesterday's yum updates it broke.
>> It breaks like this after that, and one has to write 
>> "7.0" into
>> /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever to fix it. Why release notes 
>> say that we
>> might need to remove that package and break the system? 
>> Not sure. Maybe
>> it's to remind people that this is beta/RC stuff which is 
>> expected to
>> break and no one will care :)
>>
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