On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 10:20, Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/22/24 2:14 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > In file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo,
> >
> > metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-
> > $releasever&arch
> >
> > Where does the "$releasever" come from?  how can
> > I reproduce it from the command line?  (It is different
> > than /etc/redhat-release.)
>
> I believe that, unless you override it on the command line, it takes the
> release version of the "fedora-release-common" package.
>
> I once had an issue where an interrupted upgrade left two versions of
> that package and I had to remove the older one before dnf would use the
> right release.
>

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19701/yum-how-can-i-view-variables-like-releasever-basearch-yum0/317487#317487
looks useful.

I get the following on an f40 system:

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ python3 -c 'import dnf, pprint; db = dnf.dnf.Base();
pprint.pprint(db.conf.substitutions,width=1)'
{'arch': 'x86_64',
 'basearch': 'x86_64',
 'releasever': '40',
 'releasever_major': '40',
 'releasever_minor': ''}
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