Brian Long <brilong@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
This is done in varReplace() in parser.py ... which just does a
literal \w+ ... I'd thought about extending it before, to allow
$(foo)s or ${foo}s or something, but it's very rarely needed not asked
for by anyone and not super trivial, so it never got done.
> 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.
One other thing you can do (RHEL-6+ yum) is:
echo 6s > /etc/yum/vars/releasevers
echo 6w > /etc/yum/vars/releaseverw
...and use those, but I'm not sure if that's better or worse from your
POV.
--
James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx
k
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