Unfortunately my perplexity has been replaced by another yet more perplexing. Nevertheless thanks very much - jon On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 17:56 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > > In particular how are the characters "=" (other than directly after > > "mirrorlist") and "&" interpreted? A pointer to documentation will be > > sufficient. > > They're not parsed by yum. They're parsed by the web application > handing out the list of mirrors. The resulting file is a list of > mirrors which yum knows how to deal with. > ...
