Re: repo $release server question

[Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 10:20, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/22/24 2:14 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> In file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo,
>
> metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-
> $releasever&arch
>
> Where does the "$releasever" come from?  how can
> I reproduce it from the command line?  (It is different
> than /etc/redhat-release.)

I believe that, unless you override it on the command line, it takes the
release version of the "fedora-release-common" package.

I once had an issue where an interrupted upgrade left two versions of
that package and I had to remove the older one before dnf would use the
right release.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19701/yum-how-can-i-view-variables-like-releasever-basearch-yum0/317487#317487 looks useful.

I get the following on an f40 system:

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ python3 -c 'import dnf, pprint; db = dnf.dnf.Base(); pprint.pprint(db.conf.substitutions,width=1)'
{'arch': 'x86_64',
 'basearch': 'x86_64',
 'releasever': '40',
 'releasever_major': '40',
 'releasever_minor': ''}
 

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