On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:44 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Rick Graves wrote: > > > Robert, > > > > The subroutine can pass back expressions -- they do > > not have to be reduced to variables. > > > > So the last line of the subroutine could be: > > > > return expr1, expr2, ... > > > > Rick > > Thanks! In which case the patch looks like the following (at the end). > > Seems to (still) work, sets distribution to "redhat-release" on my RH9 > system. > > It has occurred to me that a useful yum option would be: > > yum showvar [distribution,releasever,basearch] > > to produce the respective output: > > distribution > releasever > basearch > > The reason that would be useful is it would show how yum will expand the > variables in a yum.conf (good for admins) and it would allow relocatable > Makefiles to be built that do things like: > > DISTRO=`yum showvar distribution` > DISTVER=`yum showvar releasever` > BASEARCH=`yum showvar basearch` > REPO_PATH = /home/rgb/public_html/my_yum/$(DISTRO)/$(DISTVER)/$(BASEARCH) > > (good for developers). For example, one could fairly easily build an > rpm and drop it into just the right place (and even rerun yum-arch on > that place) with a single make target. > > However, I won't push my luck with Seth... he hasn't yet said excited > things about the patch and may even be thinking Bad Thoughts about it > even without cracking it way up. ;-) > > If I really want it I can easily write a python or perl script that does > only this and call it inside my makefiles. If Seth accepts this one > measly little patch, I can get on with posting just ONE yum.conf to > accompany my rgb-ware distribution scheme...:-) > I'm not accepting patches against 2.0.X unless they are bugfix patches. -sv
