Jonathan Ryshpan kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 29. lokakuuta 2006 01:41): > How do you parse the following line > from:/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo: > > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=co >re-$releasever&arch=$basearch > (...) > I have been informed that $release and $basearch are > interpreted by the yum client as described in the yum man > page, but that "?" and "=" (and the surrounding text) are > interpreted by Fedora's mirrorlist server. Can anyone > enlighten me about how these characters are handled? It's the standard HTML form submission syntax, defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.3.4 "?" separates the script URL (mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist) from the argument list, which contains two name/value pairs (e.g. repo=core-6 and arch=i368) separated by a "&". -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx