On 03/02/2013 10:48 AM, zxq9 wrote: > On 03/02/2013 04:49 PM, g wrote: >> greetings. >> >> i have recently in stalled sl6.3 from a 'livedvd on a stick' and all went >> well. >> >> in looking at the new /etc/yum.repos.d files, i see "$releasever" and >> "$basearch". >> >> how and where are these strings set? ---
thank you for reply. it may be too late for me and this install. see *below*. > yum sets its own environment when invoked. yum/__init__.py initializes > basearch from a listing in rpmUtils/arch.py. I think releasever is > pulled in by yum/config.py, but I don't remember where. If that doesn't > make much sense then I recommend not doing whatever you're thinking of > doing. it is understandable. now i am wondering just where the *.py are located. or is it in memory? > Are you trying to set your system up a special way or are you just curious? curious. i like to know why and how things work. more so now than before. *below* i should have 'pulled plugs' and gone to bed early, but i did not. while waiting to see if i would get an early reply, i played where i should not have. not fully thinking about what i was doing, i renamed the sl6.3's installed 'yum.repo.d', then i copied in the 'yum.repo.d' from an sl5.x installation. not thinking about what i had done [i blame it on my chemo therapy], i ran 'yum update' without changing any of the sl5.x paths to sl6.3. after i entered 'yum update', i left computer to do some house chores, came back a little later and entered 'y' for continue. it was not until i finished what i was doing and returned that i saw my error. needless to say, i got a bunch a bunch of 'el5' packages installed instead of 'el6' packages. i renamed the 'sl5.x' 'yum.repo.d' and restored name of the 'sl6.3' 'yum.repo.d' and tried 'yum upgrade', which failed with a long string of 'bad mirror' messages. so now i am stuck with a basically 'sl6.3' install with a lot of 'sl5.x' packages. now my question is, is installation salvageable without a lot of trouble, or would it be better to wipe partition and install fresh? if fresh is better, safer and easier, so be it and i will have learned a new lesson in life and computers. again, i thank you for your help. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
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