I did an upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 using a DVD.

My repositories all still point to Fedora 12 programs. What do I have to do to make them access Fedora 14 programs ?

Yum repo configs are installed via the fedora-release package, make sure that it it's update.

Thanks for the reply. I tried that but nothing happens

[root@mars mike]# yum update fedora-release
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root@mars mike]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated 18
fedora Fedora 12 - x86_64 19,122
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free 432
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Updates 273
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree 139
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - Updates 150
repolist: 20,134
[root@mars mike]#

Yes, but you obviously can't get the 14 version if your system is still looking at the 12 repo, right? grab the file yourself, or force the release number "yum --releasever=14 update fedora-release" But to be in this state, are you *sure* you ran the upgrade?? Generally I'd advice a reinstallation every time, althought this laptop I'm now did upgrade from from 13 to 14. the Fedora Wiki also has any upgrade caveats and gotchas between versions, so check that out too.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried a "yum --releasever=14 update fedora-release" but it ends with ...

Transaction Check Error:
package fedora-release-14-1.noarch is already installed

So I thought, OK, I'll delete the package and install it again, but then yum warms me it wants to delete 299 other packages - about 1.1Gb of data, so I chickened out at that point.

Any other suggestions ?

wel you could force a removal without the deps... just grab the package adn install it with "rpm -Uvh --force http://hany.sk/mirror/fedora/releases/14/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-14-1.noarch.rpm"

if you do a "rpm -q fedora-release" do you somehow have 2 installed?

It seems that the $releasevar value used in the repos will come from the version of the fedora-release package as installed, it. the Version field listed in "rpm -qi fedora-release"

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, it does look like I have two versions of the package installed.

So I just need to get rid of the FC12 one and it'll all behave itself ?

[root@mars ~]# rpm -qi fedora-release
Name : fedora-release Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 12 Vendor: Fedora Project
Release : 2 Build Date: Wed 11 Nov 2009 16:25:51 WET
Install Date: Mon 29 Mar 2010 17:34:40 WET Build Host: x86-6.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: fedora-release-12-2.src.rpm
Size : 25599 License: GPLv2
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Wed 11 Nov 2009 17:15:07 WET, Key ID 9d1cc34857bbccba
Packager : Fedora Project
URL : http://fedoraproject.org
Summary : Fedora release files
Description :
Fedora release files such as yum configs and various /etc/ files that
define the release.
Name : fedora-release Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 14 Vendor: Fedora Project
Release : 1 Build Date: Thu 14 Oct 2010 22:35:23 WET
Install Date: Wed 29 Dec 2010 10:58:07 WET Build Host: x86-19.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: fedora-release-14-1.src.rpm
Size : 27184 License: GPLv2
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri 15 Oct 2010 03:09:29 WET, Key ID 421caddb97a1071f
Packager : Fedora Project
URL : http://fedoraproject.org
Summary : Fedora release files
Description :
Fedora release files such as yum configs and various /etc/ files that
define the release.
[root@mars ~]#


Later ...

I did a " yum remove fedora-release-12-2" and Packagekit burst into life telling me I have over 112 updates to perform. They appear to be FC14 versions too.

Thank you for your help - it all seems to be OK now (he said touching wood and fingers crossed)