On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 00:19 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:11:18PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:> > I occasionally have to find repos on the web, using a browser. It helps> > to know the values of $basearch and $releasever.> > > > It looks like basesearch=`uname -m`> > but what is releasever?> > > > BTW: It would be nice if this were part of the yum man page or info> > file.> > man yum.conf:> > $releasever> This will be replaced with the value of the version of the pack-> age listed in distroverpkg. This defaults to the version of> ʽredhat-releaseʼ package.> Foolish of me not to run "man yum.conf".
So let me play this back to you:
Man yum.conf tells me to look in distroverpkg. A short web search tellsme that this is an rpm, whose name can be found by running: yum whatprovides redhat-release
Actually running this gives the output: $ yum whatprovides redhat-release fedora-release-10-1.noarch : Fedora release files Repo : fedora Matched from: Other : redhat-release
generic-release-9.91-2.noarch : Generic release files Repo : fedora Matched from: Other : redhat-release
generic-release-10-1.noarch : Generic release files Repo : updates Matched from: Other : redhat-release
fedora-release-10-1.noarch : Fedora release files Repo : installed Matched from: Other : Provides-match: redhat-release
Since I'm running Fedora-10, the last item looks like the right one, andin fact: $ rpm -q fedora-release-10 fedora-release-10-1.noarchWhat's more: $ rpm -qa '*release*' rpmfusion-nonfree-release-10-1.noarch adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch fedora-release-10-1.noarch rpmfusion-free-release-10-1.noarch fedora-release-notes-10.0.0-1.noarchdoesn't show anything promising.
fedora-release-10-1.noarch contains a promising file: $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)So I suspect that $releasever has the value "10", and not "f10" or"fc10" or "Fedora-10", or whatever.
I'm sorry, but I think this is all about as clear as mud.
Thanks again - jon
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