On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 18:39 +0530, Aawardhan Logandhan wrote: > I think what yum 2.4 does is, it looks at both the > default /etc/yum.conf(also /etc/yum.repos.d) and also the custom > config file, which is prepared by the user. > > This problem didn't arise with yum 2.0 because /etc/yum.repos.d wasn't > there at that time. > > If the user uses -c option with yum, he would not want yum to look at > the default yum.conf file. > So, how do we disable yum from looking at the default config files?? > > Thanks in advance no - what does your reposdir= option in your yum.conf say? If it is not listed then it defaults to /etc/yum.repos.d Therefore your alternative yum.conf is going to pull in the same repos. If you want to disable reposdir then do: reposdir=/dev/null -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum