On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:38 -0700, MJang wrote: > Folks, > > Just wondering where the $releasever and $basearch variables are set > (these variables are found in the files in the /etc/yum.repos.d > directory. > > I understand what they are, that $releasever is the release version > (i.e. 3 or 4 for Fedora Core 3 or 4), and $basearch is the architecture > such as i386 or x86_64, but just can't figure out where these variables > are set. Yum just expands these strings to the appropriate values as and when it encounters them. It derives the $releasever value from the version number of the package configured as "distroverpkg" (actually, whatever "provides" that in RPM parlance) in /etc/yum.conf, and $basearch from a call to the operating system's uname(2) function. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
