So I’ve posted a bunch of times here about my various questions with creating a distribution based off of Fedora (called “Top Hat” for now) and I am almost finished with the basics. However, I’ve recently come upon a problem I have no lead on fixing. So, I was creating a package based off of generic-release to set proper versioning (mainly for Anaconda). Anyways, the problem is that the variable $releasever for DNF is being set to my test version 0.0 instead of the base version 32, causing most uses of dnf to fail.
Here are what files the package creates.
/usr/lib/fedora-release:
Top Hat release 0.0 (The Dark Side of the Moon)
/usr/lib/os-release:
NAME=Top Hat
VERSION="0.0 ("The Dark Side of the Moon")"
ID=top-hat
ID_LIKE=fedora
VERSION_ID=32
PRETTY_NAME="Top Hat 0.0 ("The Dark Side of the Moon")"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
LOGO=top-hat-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:generic:generic:32"
HOME_URL=https://gitlab.com/CheeseEBoi/top-hat-release
SUPPORT_URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help!_(album)"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.com/CheeseEBoi/top-hat-release/-/issues"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=32
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=32
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="http://nsa.gov"
Please note that these are not final and contain some placeholder data from the original generic-release package. Also, in my kickstart files based off of those of Fedora, I have this line in the base file, but it likely isn’t related to this since it is a shell variable:
releasever=$(rpm -q --qf '%{base_version}\n' --whatprovides system-release)
So, the TLDR question is: How can I set $releasever to 32 for the repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ while keeping the different versioning for the rest of the system?
PS: If you want to read through these files in detail, they’re on my Gitlab, criticism appreciated!