CentOS - Apr 2006 - How to query the new style mirrorlist ?

Hi,
>From CentOS 4.3, I saw the yum repository setting
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
is something like:
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mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
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Is that possible I can query the result by lynx ? I have a script to get
the URL and path in old yum repository style, but broken in this. When I
use "lynx
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.3&arch=i386&repo=os",
it shows me "4.3 hasnt been released yet".
I need to get the result like the baseurl style
"http://free.nchc.org.tw/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/"
or a list of urls.

Thanks in advance.

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Steven Shiau

Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi,
>>From CentOS 4.3, I saw the yum repository setting
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
> is something like:
> --------------------
>
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
> --------------------
> Is that possible I can query the result by lynx ? I have a script to get
> the URL and path in old yum repository style, but broken in this. When I
> use "lynx
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.3&arch=i386&repo=os",
> it shows me "4.3 hasnt been released yet".
> I need to get the result like the baseurl style
> "http://free.nchc.org.tw/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/"
> or a list of urls.
> 
The mirrorlist will only track against a Release, which in this case is
/4/ and not /4.3/

is there any specific reason you want to look at /4.3/ instead of /4/ ?

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq

Hi Karanbir:
Got it, no special reason for 4.3, so 4 is working.
Thanks.

--
Steven

Hi Karanbir:
I suggest it's better to have
releasever=4.3 work for the new mirrorlist, since releasever=4.3 is 
working with baseurl, i.e
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.3/os/i386/

It's better to be consistent that releasever=4.3 works with new 
mirrorlist, i.e.
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.3&arch=i386&repo=os

Thanks.

--
Steven