> This very much interests me. I auto-generate my yum.conf files, and > it's a hassle to not have the distribution available at run-time as a > substition variable. I currently have to know whether the client I'm > generating for is Fedora or RedHat so I can generate the correct file. > If $distrubution were available, all of the files would be identical. > why not just use: $YUM# #== 0-9 and define that variable in your system shell environment. Then you can do in your shell: export YUM0='fedora' and in your yum.conf [foo] name=$YUM0 distribution $releasever $basearch baseurl=http://download.$YUM0.redhat.com/$releasever/$basearch/ -sv
