Not, sure if this is what you were looking for, this is an excerpt from a yum install doc I wrote. > A few things to note in the yum.conf file. > > > > You can have more than one server listed in the conf file. This is a > fallback mechanism in case the first server is not available. > > > > The $releasever is the version of linux, such as 7.2 or 2. The > $basearch is used in Fedora and is the "i386". > > > > To set the cache for yum: > > cachedir = /var/cache/yum > > > > To set the yum logfile: > > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > > > > To exclude kernel updates > > exclude=kernel* > > > > Where to find the gpg keys > > gpghome=/root/.gnupg > > > > Enable gpg checking > > gpgcheck=1 > > > > Only update with i386 packages. Use the exact architecture > > that is installed. > > exactarch=1 > > > > How many times to retry the server > > retries=1 > > > > For more options with yum.conf look at the manpage > > > > man yum.conf > > > > To make testing faster, comment out sections in the yum.conf. For > example, just have the updates section active. That way yum will only > retrieve the header info for the updates. > > > HTH JoAnna Green Ivan Low wrote: > Thank you Tony. > > Ivan > > Tony Mountifield wrote: > >> In article <1097508349.1282.10.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, >> Ivan Low <visional_freeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, I wanna to edit the yum conf file, can anybody show me how? >>> >> >> >> Yes, like this: >> >> vi /etc/yum.conf >> >> Cheers >> Tony >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20041013/f4033c99/attachment.htm
