On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:36 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> I'm playing with a tool called mrepo which allows one to automate the
> mounting of distro ISOs, download updates, and serve them via yum. It
> was written before Spacewalk was available and in my limited testing
> seems to work well.
>
> The only issue comes with the default directory structure and yum
> variable $releasever. If I mount the RHEL 6 Server ISO, it defaults to
> rhel6s-x86_64/disc1 and RHEL 6 Workstation goes to rhel6w-x86_64/disc1.
> I'd like to use $releasever for the "6" so I could add support for RHEL
> 5.x in the future, but yum doesn't like "$releasevers" (notice the
> trailing s) or ${releasever}s like bash. Is there a way to get this
> working with $releasever or should I consider changing mrepo to use a
> different directory name to distinguish Server vs. Workstation? I spend
> a few minutes trolling through yum's source code but couldn't see how
> the yum.conf was parsing releasever.
>
it's in parser.py
it's
_KEYCRE = re.compile(r"\$(\w+)")
it's trying to grab the longest contiguous var name for the match
so it is sees $releasevers
not $releasever.
looks like we need a more clever match there.
-sv
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