On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:52 -0700, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > Hello, > I just have a small question/suggestion for yum. I should say first > that I appreciate the fact that yum exists. The one thing that I could > use is something like a yum.d directory. Let me explain my problem, > perhaps there is already a solution that isn't being used that I could. > I use the distribution Tao-Linux which is a RHEL clone. It works great > for what I use it for. The one problem is that I have my own repository > for a select number of packages for a few of the systems. When the > distribution updates the tao-conf package, it replaces /etc/yum.conf, > which clobbers my additions to yum.conf. I thinking that having a > system like redhat's apache httpd.d directories where the files in that > directory are included into the main configuration file. That way when > the configuration file is updated with new mirrors or what have you the > other parts of the configuration exist. I'm not sure if this is a yum > thing or a distribution thing. I thought I'd start here... Let me know. 1. I don't like that centos and tao linux both do that symlink thing with the yum.conf. It seems like bad form to have an over-writable config file by default but <shrug> not my deal. :) 2. yum.repo.d is implemented in yum-HEAD config code already. It will be in the next major release of yum. -sv
