On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 23:28 -0500, Tyler Nally wrote: > Tyler Nally wrote: > > > Because I don't have access to CD-ROM drive. > > I only access it through the 'net. And Fedora 1 > > is currently installed. > > I figure that if all I have to do is change a setting > somewhere so that YUM/Up2date will look to a different > Fedora Core Version Source... and keep re-loading headers > and keep updating them... (and repeating the steps as > needed) then, eventually, I'll end up with the equivalent > of a Fedora Core 4 machine. > > But, what I'm not understanding is how YUM looks into > the right path to get the updates when I see the following > entries in /etc/yum.conf .... > > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ > > ... where does $releasever and $basearch get their values? It's explained in "man yum.conf". Look in the section on "VARIABLES". Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
