Yum $releasever $basearch

[Paul Howarth]

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.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>