I have a couple old systems that were upgraded from Red Hat 7.2 to 7.3. The Fedora Legacy Project says they will discontinue support for Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9 effective December 31st of this year (2006). http://fedoralegacy.org/ I want to do one final update, but yum still thinks it's running 7.2. Where does Yum get the $releasever variable? # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.20-28.7 (bhcompile at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-126)) #1 Thu Dec 18 11:31:59 EST 2003 # yum update Gathering package information from servers Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 base Getting headers from: Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux 7.2 Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers No Packages Available for Update No actions to take # cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest exactarch=1 exclude=kernel* [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch gpgcheck=1 [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$bas earch gpgcheck=1 [legacy-utils] name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils /$basearch gpgcheck=1 Thanks. == Craig A. Smith