[Yum] Re: relationship between up2date and yum repos

[Steven Stromer]

> the fact that the alert icon bug has not been publicly announced by 
> redhat (or the fedora folks?) in order to notify people to use yum 
> instead (or to at least list all repositories in the /etc/yum.conf file 
> instead of in separate files in /etc/yum.repos.d/), is particularly 
> alarming (and people have noted this in the bug itself).

Dear Jeff,

Can you explain your concern for people using placing repo files in 
/etc/yum.repos.d over inserting into yum.conf? Even the yum.conf file 
indicates that either alternative is acceptable.

I agree with you that the bug with the up2date alert icon is a real 
problem. I think that there has been enough chatter on the issue that 
most admins know about this, but this kind of glaring bug makes RedHat 
look bad.

I was really hoping to hear more about how others manage the crossover 
that occurs between packages in Fedora's repos and other repos. If you 
or anyone else has comments on this, please post. I understand that for 
some this may be 101 stuff, but I also get the sense that there are many 
who are not certain how to address this. I base my assumption on how 
little available information I can locate on the subject.

Thanks again,
Steven