On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:54 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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> > Hi, Along the same lines: Is it therefore impossible to force yum to use different release and basearch without editing the .repro files ? Eg On an x86-64 FC install Remove firefox-64 as the plugins aren't there and install firefox-i386 using yum (and hence jre-i386 with plugins) Doing this by hand seems painful !! Is there a better way ? John
