What is $releasever

[Jos Vos]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:11:18PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> I occasionally have to find repos on the web, using a browser.  It helps
> to know the values of $basearch and $releasever.
> 
> It looks like basesearch=`uname -m`
> but what is releasever?
> 
> BTW: It would be nice if this were part of the yum man page or info
> file.

man yum.conf:

       $releasever
              This will be replaced with the value of the version of the pack-
              age listed in distroverpkg. This  defaults  to  the  version  of
              ‘redhat-release’ package.

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