Re: yum

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 16:26 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> ...
> >>
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> >>
> > I tried the above replacement. That is not a valid web address. What
> is
> > wrong?
> 
> yum will replace $releasever with "5" and basearch with "i386" (or 
> whatever), then the url will be:
> 
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-5&arch=i386
> 
> This works as a valid web address
I agree it should and it has for a long time but right now the
replacement of
$releasever with "5" and basearch with "i386" does not work. The second
address you list does work. Can anyone explain this?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>