On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Maciej Puzio wrote:
Files /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo, atrpms-testing.repo and atrpms-bleeding.repo from package atrpms-repo-6-4.el6.x86_64 contain wrong baseurls: baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/testing baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/bleeding Variable $releasever expands to "6.0", while atrpms keeps packages in directories el6-i386 and el6-x86_64 - that is, without ".0". As a result,
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I've never understood why yum doesn't provide a $majorreleasever variable as well as $releasever - for those repos where you want to have a single tree for each major release (but not for the point releases) and don't expect people to edit the .repo files.
I *think* it would be an easy change to yum's config.py (where yumvars['releasever'] gets set). Perhaps it would be better to have a syntax in the .conf files to allow variables/values to be defined which will be expanded in .repo files (you can already use YUM0-YUM9 environment variables but those are horrid names).
Not that I'm expecting any of this to be done by the sl team - they work hard enough as-it-is...
Next time I get a chance I'll test it and try to submit a patch to the yum maintainers.
-- Jon
