Bug 1360752

Summary:	[rfe] provide a way to read out $basearch
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gerd v. Egidy <gerd>
Component:	dnf-plugins-core	Assignee:	Michael Mráka <mmraka>
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Description Gerd v. Egidy 2016-07-27 11:59:00 UTC

Description of problem:

Currently there is no proper way for the user or a script to read out the content of the $basearch variable used by dnf, e.g. in the repo defintion files in /etc/yum.repos.d/

Using "uname -m" doesn't work, it returns e.g. "armv7l" while the proper $basearch is "armhfp".

This was already a problem with yum:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19701/yum-how-can-i-view-variables-like-releasever-basearch-yum0
But the solutions provided there don't work with dnf anymore and do not look like stable interfaces to me.

I think "dnf config-manager --dump" should also output basearch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-plugins-core-0.1.21-2.fc24

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf config-manager --dump | grep basearch

Actual results:
<empty>

Expected results:
basearch = armhfp

Comment 1 Michael Mráka 2016-07-27 12:28:30 UTC

Created new option for this:

 dnf config-manager --dump-variables

you can combine it with --dump if want both variables and configuration options.

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-core/pull/185

Comment 2 Gerd v. Egidy 2016-07-27 12:55:04 UTC

wow, that was fast. Thank you.

Comment 3 Igor Gnatenko 2016-07-29 14:57:41 UTC

Merged as part of DNF 2.0 release.