tom campbell wrote:
Hello all: I can't seem to find the documentation for the syntax for the following line in a *.repo file: mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os Before I download the yum source and look at the code, I was hoping someone could point me to a URL/man page/ that explains: * The '?' * The '&' * All the '='s I know about the generic $xxx variables. Thanks, I'm running yum 3.2.8 on Fedora 7 which appears to be the current stable version.
Those &s, ?s and = are just characters in the URL to the document which provides a list of mirrors. Apparently, it's a script, and release, arch and repo are the parameters to that script. This has nothing to do with yum directly, it's just centos webmasters implemented it in that way. I mean, the URL could possibly be something like http://mirrorlist.centos.org/$releasever/$arch/os or anything else.
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