Hi,

in SL5 I replaced the stock yum repository files and /etc/yum.conf with files 
customized for our site (local repo mirrors, special excludes etc.) with an 
RPM with the following properties:

Requires:       redhat-release >=  %{version}
Provides:       yum-conf
Provides:       epel-release-5
Obsoletes:      yum-conf
Obsoletes:      yum-conf-epel
Obsoletes:      epel-release

With this setup we were able to prevent updates from SL from clobbering our 
repo setup. This worked fine, since the yum-conf package owns /etc/yum.conf on 
SL5.

On SL6 however, yum.conf is owned by the yum package. It doesn't make sense 
for us to rebuild that just to insert our own yum.conf. Of course, we will 
have to change a few things to accomodate the new sl-release rpm, but that's 
fine.

Any ideas?

	Cheers,

		Andreas