[Yum] yum location

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 27 01:40:29 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:38, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 21:14, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hey,
> >  now that yum is reasonably useful for non-root users (yum info, yum
> > list, yum provides) should I make a symlink or something into /usr/bin?
> > 
> > that way its in the user's default path.
> > 
> > I figured I'd let it be a symlink for now, then for > 1.0 it would be
> > the default.
> > 
> > but I didn't want to break anyone's scripts who are using /usr/sbin.
> 
> How about the other way around, then -- put it in /usr/bin/yum, but
> symlink it from /usr/sbin. This is less crufty. :)
> 

yah - that sounds like a good idea.

and frankly yum-arch has no reason to be in /usr/sbin at all.

-sv

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