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
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
wow, that was fast. Thank you.
Merged as part of DNF 2.0 release.