Brian McGonagill wrote:

>For SL4.x I had to change enabled=0 to enabled=1
>in /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
>
>can't find that file in SLF304, and when I do a yum search netspped
>nothing comes up.
>  
>
Try editing "/etc/yum.conf".  There should an existing entry for DAG's 
packages in that file that you can uncomment.  If the entry is not 
therre, the one that I use on one of my typical SL3 machines is:

[dag]

name=DAG rpms

baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el3/en/$basearch/dag/

The package is still called netspeed_applet.

>I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
>  
>
They changed the configuration mechanism on you between releases.  The 
advantage of the /etc/yum.repos.d/* over the single-file configuration 
used in SL3 is that it's easier to drop a portion of the configuration 
in from a .rpm package.  No messy automatic editing of text files in an 
RPM packages' install script.  It's also easier to write instructions 
for the /etc/yum.repos.d/* system because I can guarantee that the 
person reading the instructions will be in the correct "section" of the 
configuration.

If you end up playing with a lot of Linux distributions of varying ages, 
you'll see the same kind of change taking place with inetd, and probably 
some other services as well.  Traditional inetd uses a configuration 
file called /etc/inetd.conf.  Older distributions (and traditional 
Unixes) use /etc/inetd.conf, while the new stuff uses /etc/xinetd.d/* to 
configure the individual services.  The tradeoff between these methods 
is more obvious with inetd than it is with yum.

I hope this helps,
-Luke