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Re: yum.conf ownership in SL6
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Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:04:11 -0800
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On 3/11/2011 1:34, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> You're not the only one, I found this extremely irritating as we use
>> puppet to manage yum config.
>
> yum.conf is marked %config(noreplace). Once modified, updates won't overwrite it.

This.  Since you have a configuration manager you can just overwrite the 
file with that and be done with it.  No need to rebuild any packages at all.

Thanks for better mirroring upstream, SL people.  :)

-- 
Garrett Holmstrom

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