On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 10:11 -0400, Swiftmind wrote: > Hello. > > I am working on some systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. I am > compiling the latest RH kernel with some custom changes on a bunch of > these machines. I want to use yum to update the applications as well, > but I ran into a problem with repositories. It seems my system is the > only one with three RH repositories that contain RPMs I need to > compile the kernels. So far yum on two other systems I worked on do > not have these repositories. I am trying to figure out how my system > knows about these two extra repos. Here is my information below. > > [root@Huskies etc]# uname -r > 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 > [root@Huskies etc]# uname -m > x86_64 > > [root@Huskies etc]# rpm -qa | grep yum > yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 > yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 > yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9 > yum-3.2.8-9.el5_2.1 > > [root@Huskies etc]# yum repolist all > Loading "rhnplugin" plugin > repo id repo name status > rhel-debuginfo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Client - x86_6 > disabled > rhel-x86_64-client-5 None > enabled > rhel-x86_64-client-s None > enabled > rhel-x86_64-client-w None > enabled > > ===================================== > Here is a system I am trying to update. > > [root@nebulous yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep yum > yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 > yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 > yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-12.el5_2.9 > yum-3.2.8-9.el5_2.1 > > [root@nebulous yum.repos.d]# uname -r > 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 > [root@Huskies etc]# uname -m > x86_64 > > [root@nebulous yum.repos.d]# yum repolist all > Loading "rhnplugin" plugin > repo id repo name status > rhel-debuginfo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Client - x86_6 > disabled > rhel-x86_64-client-5 None > > ===================================== > As you can see the "rhel-x86_64-client-s" and "rhel-x86_64-client-w" > are missing. Where are these repos being defined? > yum-rhn-plugin defines them on the fly. They never get an explicit definition in a .repo file. If you'd like to see this changed for the future I'd encourage you to file a bug in rh's bugzilla and/or contact your TAM, if you have one. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
