On 4/27/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:08 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> > On 4/27/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 4/27/06, Nat Gross <nat101l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > <snip>
>
> > > You may want to consult the man page for yum, and/or the documentation
> > > at http://centos.org/docs/4/ about yum.
> > >
> > > yum list compat\* will show you the available compat packages. Install
> > > the ones you need.
> > Thanks. I didn't know that I can use regex patterns for yum. It's much
> > simpler now.
> > <snip sig>
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
>
> and on your local system
>
> file:///usr/share/doc/yum-2.4.2
>
> man yum.conf
> man yum-builddep # Not too usefull for us casual users?
> man yumdownloader
> man yum
> man yum-shell
> man yum-arch
>
> I think there's some more, relating to plugins etc. Googling with
> advanced along the lines of
>
> yum site:centos.org
>
> IIRC will also get stuff mentioned in the lists (I'm thinking mostly
> about protect base ATM to keep non-base repos from munging your system).
>
> HTH
Whew! By the time I finish the yum docs, a new yum will be here!
tx
nat
