# Reposync --releasever doesn't work in a rocky container

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/reposync-releasever-doesnt-work-in-a-rocky-container/18828>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [June 16, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/reposync-releasever-doesnt-work-in-a-rocky-container/18828 "2025-06-16T14:35:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/reposync-releasever-doesnt-work-in-a-rocky-container/18828/2 "2025-06-16T17:09:57Z")

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See this link, where I’ve mentioned before about the docker library link problem:

> [@Are Docker Images no longer published?](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/are-docker-images-no-longer-published/18391/2):
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> You can do: docker pull rockylinux/rockylinux:8.10 docker pull rockylinux/rockylinux:9.5 So not sure what links you’ve been exploring on Docker Hub, but those tags above do exist. @neil would need to fix the library links for it be work in the shorthand way: docker pull rockylinux:8.10 for example. Incidently, podman deals with this better.

Therefore for pulling images, rather than attempting to use the shortcut (library) link, just do:

```auto
docker pull rockylinux/rockylinux:<tag>

```

replacing `<tag>` with `9.6` for example. Obviously that won’t solve your reposync problem, as that is something else entirely. But if reposyinc is using `9` instead of `9.5` or `9.6` which is symlinked to `9`, then that would explain why it overwrote what you had synced previously.

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