[Yum] Parsing yum.repos.d

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

Unfortunately my perplexity has been replaced by another yet more
perplexing.

Nevertheless thanks very much - jon

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 17:56 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > In particular how are the characters "=" (other than directly after
> > "mirrorlist") and "&" interpreted?  A pointer to documentation will be
> > sufficient.
> 
> They're not parsed by yum. They're parsed by the web application
> handing out the list of mirrors. The resulting file is a list of
> mirrors which yum knows how to deal with.
> ...