Bug 1102575

Summary:	Environment variable substitution in yum.conf doesn't work
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Karel Srot <ksrot>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.5	CC:	james.antill, jzeleny, ksrot, nerawat, vmukhame
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	yum-3.2.29-59.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: use environment variables $YUM0-$YUM9 in yum.conf Consequence: variables aren't substituted with their values Fix: patch Result: variables are substituted with their values in yum.conf	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-10-14 04:37:36 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Karel Srot 2014-05-29 09:01:07 UTC

Description of problem:

# cat /etc/yum.conf | grep retries
retries=$YUM0
# YUM0=7 yum-config-manager | grep retries
Options Error: Error parsing "retries = '$YUM0'": invalid integer value

See also bug 977380 that is fixing the problem for *.repo files.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.29-40.el6

How reproducible:
always

Comment 5 Valentina Mukhamedzhanova 2014-06-11 09:17:01 UTC

Upstream fix - http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=04c46c81f556e3e5ee72630f9501e243d00528a7

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 04:37:36 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1410.html