Bug 969927

repo URL is supposed to support $releasever and $basearch in the --baseurl and --mirrorlist parameter starting in Fedora 19 according to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#repo however this is not the case. When specifying $basearch and/or $releasever in the URL, the repo is ignored.

This was tested on Fedora 19 Beta with the following repo entry:

    repo --name=fedora --cost=10 --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #881911 +++

Anaconda is failing to load a repository because it is sending "$releasever" and "$basearch" instead of interpreting these as variables. I do not recall having this problem in previous releases. 

I am installing Fedora 18 Beta (with anaconda 18.29.2).

I tried the following series of repo lines:

1) The repo:

repo --name=fedora-updates-testing --baseurl=http://mirrors.cs.byu.edu/fedora/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch

failed to load in anaconda, and the http server gave the error:

File does not exist: /mirrors/fedora/updates/testing/$releasever

2) The repo:

repo --name=fedora-updates-testing --baseurl=http://mirrors.cs.byu.edu/fedora/updates/testing/18/$basearch

failed to load in anaconda, and the http server gave the error:

File does not exist: /mirrors/fedora/updates/testing/18/$basearch

3) Finally, the repo:

repo --name=fedora-updates-testing --baseurl=http://mirrors.cs.byu.edu/fedora/updates/testing/18/x86_64

worked without any errors.

--- Additional comment from Brian C. Lane on 2012-12-05 10:28:49 EST ---

Take a look at how livecd-creator does this, it does some substitutions in imgcreate/yuminst.py