[SLL] yum repos and the mysterious life of releasever

[jkeating]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:19:58 -0700
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> How does yum parse the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.conf and/or /etc/yum.conf
> files? If there are multiple [updates] sections, which one prevails?
> I'm pretty familiar with the python ConfigParser module, but I'm not
> sure if that's what yum is using under the hood.

Yum is using something that is actually a bit nicer, and may be
packaged separately soon.

Anyway each [foo] section is treated as a block.  I'm not actually sure
what happens if you define multiple of them, yum may actually balk on
that.

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