[Yum] Question/Suggestion

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:52 -0700, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I just have a small question/suggestion for yum. I should say first 
> that I appreciate the fact that yum exists. The one thing that I could 
> use is something like a yum.d directory. Let me explain my problem, 
> perhaps there is already a solution that isn't being used that I could. 
> I use the distribution Tao-Linux which is a RHEL clone. It works great 
> for what I use it for. The one problem is that I have my own repository 
> for a select number of packages for a few of the systems. When the 
> distribution updates the tao-conf package, it replaces /etc/yum.conf, 
> which clobbers my additions to yum.conf. I thinking that having a 
> system like redhat's apache httpd.d directories where the files in that 
> directory are included into the main configuration file. That way when 
> the configuration file is updated with new mirrors or what have you the 
> other parts of the configuration exist. I'm not sure if this is a yum 
> thing or a distribution thing. I thought I'd start here... Let me know.

1. I don't like that centos and tao linux both do that symlink thing
with the yum.conf. It seems like bad form to have an over-writable
config file by default but <shrug> not my deal. :)

2. yum.repo.d is implemented in yum-HEAD config code already. It will be
in the next major release of yum.

-sv