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
> 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 :)
>