On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:40 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 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 tells
> me 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, and
> in fact:
> $ rpm -q fedora-release-10
> fedora-release-10-1.noarch
> What'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.noarch
> doesn'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.
>
$releasever is a yum construct you can find what it will expand to be by
running this command:
rpm -q --qf "%{version}\n" --whatprovides redhat-release
-sv
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