[ale] ftp.ale.org Question

Robert Heaven robertheaven at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 6 23:17:52 EDT 2004


I am curious where on my system yum looks up $releasever and $basearch.


On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:07, Robert Heaven wrote:

> Thanks... here's the changes I put in my yum.conf...
> 
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>         
> ftp://ftp.ale.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> 
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
>         
> ftp://ftp.ale.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:45, Michael Still wrote: 
> 
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:36pm, Robert Heaven wrote:
> > > Can I use ftp.ale.org as a repository in my yum.conf?
> > >
> > > In other words, can I modify my yum.conf to add the line:
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.ale.org/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> > > to the [updates-released] section?
> > Yes.
> > 
> > I sync the updates 4 times a day and the root tree twice a day from the 
> > official redhat servers.
> > 
> > I think all you really need to do is change the server name because I 
> > replicated the directory path from the root with symlinks.
> > 
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