On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:18, seth vidal wrote: > > i notice that you can specify a different cache directory in yum.conf > > with "cachedir", but there's no command-line option for that, right? > > this is obviously not hard to work around, i just wanted to make sure > > i knew all of my options and there wasn't an obscure yum feature that > > would beat this. > > no command line directive for it, no. When I was looking at the config > options it didn't seem like the best idea to make EVERYTHING a command > line option - it just clutters the docs and makes the command line > painful sometimes. If it isn't listed in yum --help then it's not a > command line option. I think the --help usage has been kept fairly well > updated. One alternative would be to have an alternate configuration file that sets the cachedir and use the -c flag with yum. Sean -- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@xxxxxxxxxxx Sr. Systems Programmer 05A Hudson Hall Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (919) 660-5248 Duke University Fax: (919) 660-5293
