Re: [Hampshire] Centos 5 / yum not expanding $releasever

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Author: Brian Chivers
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Centos 5 / yum not expanding $releasever
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone ever had yum on Centos (5) stop expanding the $releasever
> variable in the repo config?
>
> I am being asked to fix one which has just started doing this,
> supposedly without anyone having done anything to make it so (no, I
> don't believe that). It's actually started requesting URLs with
> "%24releasever" in them now, instead of "5".
>
> Googling produces some very old bug reports that don't seem that
> relevant.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>

I've never seen this before but I have several CentOS5 servers so if
you'd like me to send you any of the repos files just ask and I'll send
them across so you can compare them.

Brian

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