Yum $releasever $basearch

[Temlakos]

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.

This might explain why you need to use "wget -c" to get the new yum RPM 
from the new official repo /before/ you execute "yum check-update" and 
"yum [-y] upgrade." That's the only way you're going to get the 
$releasever to read correctly.

Temlakos