[Yum] yum 2.6 weirdness

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 13:03 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am having a problem getting yum-2.6.1-0.fc5 working the way I want it to.
> 
> With 2.4 and previous versions of yum I could so something like
> 
> yum -c "http://yumconf.tntechs.com/yum.conf/yumconf.php?ver=5&fqdn=bullwinkle.tntechs.com&group=tntechs&dist=FC"
> and yum would get a config file and do its thing.
> 
> For some reason that same command line with 2.6 gives me 
> 
> Config Error: No such config file http://yumconf.tntechs.com/yumconf.php?ver=...
> 
> If I do a wget http://yumconf.tntechs.com/yum... I get the proper config file.
> 
> In addition the webserver logs show no attempts to get the config file.
> 
> Has something changed wrt the -c option with yum-2.6 or am I making an obvious
> error??
> 
> So far I have not been able to find anything via google or the man pg.
> 
> This is a freshly installed FC5 machine. Yum works normally when used with
> the config files in /etc

pretty sure we broke that in 2.6. I'll look into it.

on the plus side, however:


echo "include=http://your/path/to/yum.conf" > /etc/yum.conf


same effect

-sv