[Yum] $rleassever $basearch from where?

[Frank Murphy]

Apology for self reply.
Slight problem:
even though, have changed 
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/my_local.py
to point to:
/var/cache/yum/$releasever/$basearch/my_local/packages

left repodir  commented out in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/my_local.conf

it saved some test updates to literally:
/var/cache/yum/$releasever/$basearch/_my_local/packages

it created (due to createrepo=enabled)
/etc/yum.repos.d/_my_local.repo
baseurl=file:/var/cache/yum/$releasever/$basearch/_my_local/packages

cat /var/log/messages shows nothing,
I did "> /var/log/messages" before test.

any debugging pointers.

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