On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:34 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:18 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:15 +0100, John Austin wrote: > > > 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 ? > > > > Not having an x86_64 box, I can't try this myself, but try putting: > > > > exclude=firefox.x86_64 > > > > in your /etc/yum.conf > > This is to stop it getting reinstalled btw.; if you already have it > installed, you can remove it using: > > # yum remove firefox.x86_64 > > A plain "yum install firefox" should then pick up the i386 version > because the x86_64 version is excluded. That's the theory anyway :-) > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Paul I confess I am not sure if what I am trying to do is sensible !!!! Two problems really 1. Installing to the "wrong" basearch (x86-64 versions not available) 2. Installing to the "wrong" releasever (yum repo not available for the releasever yet) I have a Athlon64 machine with FCT3 x86-64 installed. Although my first email was wrt firefox and yum I have now installed firefox-i386 (tar) and jre-i386 (rpm-bin) by hand. Working OK (I have not tried your suggestion yet !!!!) The general question is whether it is possible/sensible to try to use yum to install such things on test releases such as FC4T3 ?? ie Use things like dag's FC3 i386 repo on a FC4T3 x86-64 built machine. I can force i386 and 3 in the dag.repo say baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os but not for mirrors as the $basearch variable does not appear it must be passed some other way as the $ARCH variable appears in the mirror list mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core- $releasever http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/$ARCH/os/ Any advice gratefully received John
