On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 5:03 PM Peter Willis <pwillis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >Well, that is strange; $releasever doesn't seem to be used in any of > >those URLs. Can you maybe post the output of the error that you're > >getting while trying to refresh repositories or similar? (e.g. "yum > >repolist") > > Just to clarify, this problem only manifests with the '--installroot' option applied to yum. > Under normal package management operations everything works fine. OK, I seem to have missed two key facts when reading your original email (sorry about that): * the variable in question is $slreleasever (not yum's built-in $releasever) * you specified an --installroot The $slreleasever variable is a user-defined variable specific to Scientific Linux, stored in the file /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever. Now, when YUM runs from a custom installroot, it looks for variable definitions *inside* that installroot. What appears to be the case here is that there's no /node_root/etc/yum/vars/slreleasever file and so YUM just doesn't substitute the $slreleasever occurrences within the baseurl values, and obviously fails thereafter. That said, for this work, all you have to do is copy the /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever file to the same location inside your installroot. Note that for the built-in $releasever variable, YUM actually allows the user to specify that the value shall be taken from the host instead (with --releasever=/ which you also used above). However, with such custom variables, you have to do the copying/symlinking. Hope that helps! Michal _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
