On Wednesday, August 4, 2004, at 11:06 PM, seth vidal wrote: > 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. :) I would agree. > > 2. yum.repo.d is implemented in yum-HEAD config code already. It will > be > in the next major release of yum. Thanks, good to know. Again, thanks for a great tool. -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions 412 - 135 Gorge Road E Victoria, BC V9A 1L1 T/F 250.385.4613 http://www.gnat.ca/
