> 1) do settings like cachedir and logfile have default values?
> it's not completely clear from "man yum.conf".
defaults for everything - line 63-91 of config.py
#defaults
self.cachedir = '/var/cache/yum'
self.debuglevel = 2
self.logfile = '/var/log/yum.log'
self.pkgpolicy = 'newest'
self.assumeyes = 0
self.errorlevel = 2
self.cache = 0
self.uid = 0
self.yumversion = 'unversioned'
self.commands = None
self.exactarch = 0
self.overwrite_groups = 0
self.groups_enabled = 0
self.diskspacecheck = 1
self.tolerant = 0
self.yumvar = self._getEnvVar()
self.distroverpkg = 'redhat-release'
self.yumvar['basearch'] = archwork.getArch()
self.yumvar['arch'] = os.uname()[4]
self.bandwidth = None
self.throttle = None
self.retries = 6
self.progress_obj = progress_meter.text_progress_meter(fo=sys.stdout)
self.installroot = '/'
self.installonlypkgs = ['kernel', 'kernel-bigmem', 'kernel-enterprise',
'kernel-smp', 'kernel-debug', 'kernel-unsupported']
self.kernelpkgnames = ['kernel','kernel-smp','kernel-enterprise',
'kernel-bigmem','kernel-BOOT']
> 3) should the explanation of "distroverpkg" be updated to reflect
> a default value of "fedora-release" instead of "redhat-release"?
> (given that, technically speaking, "redhat-release" is not the
> name of the package and therefore makes little sense as a
> default value for this setting anyway).
it doesn't default to fedora-release. It defaults to redhat-release but
it looks for packages PROVIDING redhat-release, not just named
redhat-release.
-sv
