nvr issues, yum distro-sync

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:32 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:

> I think the word "release" is being misused there.  In the mirror
> layout, "releases" refers to the originally released content without
> updates, but the distribution version stays constant across updates.
> 
> In an ideal world, I would rename *-release to *-distribution and change
> the yum variable to $distver.  But I can totally understand if that
> would cause more breakage (or mess by the time a backward compatibility
> layer is put in) than it's worth.


well the concept is not hardcoded to a package of a certain name.

you can set it in your yum.conf

man yum.conf


distroverpkg  The package used by yum to determine the "version"
     of the distribution. This can be any installed package.  Default
     is  ‘redhat-release’. You can see what provides this manually by
     using: "yum whatprovides redhat-release".


And if you want to go all crazy-pants with $variables in yum. - newest
yums allow that:


As of 3.2.28, any file in /etc/yum/vars is turned into a variable named
 after the filename (or overrides any of the above variables).

 Note that no warnings/errors are given if the files are unreadable,  so
 creating files that only root can read may be confusing for users.

 Also  note that only the first line will be read and all new line char-
 acters are removed, as a convenience. However,  no  other  checking  is
 performed  on the data. This means it is possible to have bad character
 data in any value.

-sv