[Yum] Multiple Repository Hell

[seth vidal]

> I am thinking a good use of this is so that we could get the RHL ver from
> rpm and use that to determine which repository to use. Is this what you 
> are suggesting above. One of the few downsides I currently see with yum
> is that if I upgrade the distro I have to reconfigure yum. I have used
> other updaters that handle that for me by using the info in rpm and 
> that way the upgrade is transparent to yum. If you can make that somehow
> distro independent that would be a "Good Thing" (tm) I think.
> 
> When I say the info in rpm I am talking about the following:
> redhat-release-8.0-8
> 
> Does this make sense or am I missing something??

absolutely - and that is what I implemented.
Please test the latest daily -see if it does what you want.

If it does then I'm going to change the default config file in the
tarball, too.

-sv