Bug 864863 - $basearch and $releasever not working in cachedir
Summary: $basearch and $releasever not working in cachedir
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum
Version: 5.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: James Antill
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-10 10:12 UTC by Levente Farkas
Modified: 2014-01-21 06:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-10-11 20:10:29 UTC
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Description Levente Farkas 2012-10-10 10:12:11 UTC 
if i like to setup yum case in the same way as in rhel6 ie:
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
then it's not working ie. the directory will be called as 
/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
in stead of 
/var/cache/yum/5/i386
Comment 1 James Antill 2012-10-11 20:10:29 UTC 
 Yeh, the RHEL-5 version of yum doesn't interpret the cachedir config. option. It's unlikely to be added as an RFE to RHEL-5 at this point, without a strong reason behind it.
Comment 2 Levente Farkas 2012-10-12 06:13:29 UTC 
but it understand it in all other option except this one and also the man page said it should have to be....
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