Re: yum list all its variables

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Orion Poplawski <[email protected]> writes:

> On 05/31/2012 08:58 AM, James Antill wrote:
>> Mihamina Rakotomandimby<[email protected]>  writes:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a yum command to make it lists all its variables?
>>> For example:
>>>
>>> $ yum list-variables
>>>   * $releasever: 5.8
>>>   * $basearch: i386
>>>   * ...
>>
>>   The only thing that's close is the "yum version" command which will
>> show the $relasever and $basearch.
>>
>>   What do you need this for?
>>   It might be worth adding to repoquery or yumdb, if there's a good
>> usecase.
>>
>
> I've thought it would be useful for determining the actual urls for things like:
>
> mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osname=f$releasever&basearch=$basearch&native=1&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
>
> I.e. printing out $dellsysidpluginver

 Right, so you don't really want to know the variables (and have to
mentally work out the url) you want to know the url ... and you can
see those with:

 yum repolist -v

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