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SuSE YOU reports wrong version installed

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Hemo

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Apr 9, 2003
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Here's one that has me stumped,

I had a box with SuSE 9.2 installed. I used YaST and upgraded to SuSE 9.3 with my CDs. I did not install fresh. Now, whenever I run YOU to update software, it reports the installed version of SuSE as 9.2!

/etc/SuSE-release contains this:
SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586)
VERSION = 9.3

Any thoughts what I can do to correct this or check that YOU is actually getting the correct updates? I'm hesitant to let YOU grab files in the event it is trying to get updates for 9.2 instead of 9.3
 
see if any of your base os file have been modified?

example: ls -la /usr/bin/ls
 
interesting thoughts, but I guess I should have mentioned I've tried some of these things already.

I even expanded the find to search from the root. I tracked down a few misc files like the xdmrc and sendmail.cf files that had comments or greet strings mentioning SuSE 9.2, but that's about it so far.

... still looking ...
 
Well then, get the source code for YOU and read it to figure out where it's getting the release info from. You may also be able to use strace and look through the open() calls to see what files it's reading.
 
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