[Yum] Re: yum 2.6 weirdness

[seth vidal]

> Do you want me to file a bug? If so Red Hat or Duke's bugzilla??

file one at dukes - it sends me nagmails :) Thanks.

> Thanks for the quick response and workaround but AFAICS it is not quite
> the same. In my case I have variables that get set at login to different
> values depending on the machine hostname and OS it is running.
> The idea is to be able to use the same config files in yum for all of the
> machines on my net. I currently build 4 versions of yum (FC4, FC5, el3, el4)
> but use the same support scripts across all 4 versions.
> 
> I do things like the following at login time which sets up an alias with the
> correct options:
> export releasever=`perl -ne 'm/.* release (\S+)/; print $1;' \
> 	< /etc/redhat-release`
> or
> export DIST=`perl -ane '$_ = $F[2]; s/release/FC/; s/Linux/RHL/; \
> 	s/Enterprise/RHEL/; print;' </etc/redhat-release`
> 
> Is there a better way??
> 

What are you trying to do with this alias for login? What does it buy
you? Why not just have the url you put in the config file be a cgi that
hands back the right thing based on the requesting machine? Or why not
just have the url be built up in your login script?

-sv