The nesting is getting a little deep. > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> After the install, >> I would restore the directory that listed all my repositories. >> This is a step I am not sure about. >> I have a vague recollection that that is not sufficient. >> What else would I need to do? > Michael Hennebry wrote: > Is there a command that I could use to record the > repositories I am using and restore them after the install? On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Actually, you could just look at /etc/yum.repos.d. In there, you can also > check to see if the repo is enabled, or if there's includes or excludes. > We do that here, because there are systems we do *NOT* want some things > updated without someone doing it manually, like the ones with very old > NVidia cards, where we have to manually rebuild the proprietary drivers, > or production systems, where the teams want to test the updates before > they go into production. Maybe I was not clear. I'm refering to reinstalling CentOS. My current CentOS hangs after trying to start gdm. My diagnostic efforts have been for nought, so I want to more or less start over. I already have a "list" of all the repositories I want. It's the contents of the aforementioned /etc/yum/repos.d . I could try to install every single repository by hand. I don't remember how I installed most of them, but I could try. I would probably succeed, but its not a certainty. Following that, I could install all the packages by hand. I could edit my list of installed packages and make a massive yum command. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos