Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> *Troy looks through his various yum-conf (from SL 309 through SL 51) and 
> looks a bit dejected.*
> Well ... it looks like this is the one yum repository that I have not 
> remained consistant, although there were various reasons.
> 
> In SL3, in the early days, the file was yum.conf.flash, and yet the 
> repository name was [macromedia].  At some point I changed the 
> repository name to [flash] because macromedia was a bit long, and the 
> flash plugin was all that was in it.
> 
> I believe most of SL4 had the repostory file named flash.repo and the 
> repository called [flash]
> 
> SL51 I believe had the file called flash.repo and the repository called 
> [adobe]
> 
> And, incase that wasn't confusing enough, at some point, when you 
> updated your flash-plugin, it also pulled in adobe's attempt to get 
> everyone moved over to their own repository, and it installed 
> adobe-linux-i386.repo, which had the repository name [adobe-linux-i386]
> 
> So, for the --enablerepo= section, you can put in
> --enablerep=macromedia
> --enablerepo=flash
> --enablerepo=adobe
> --enablerepo=adobe-linux-i386
> 
> uggg ... I believe this needs to be cleaned up.
> I'll start with SL 4.6, since that is still changeable.  Any idea's?
> 
> Two thoughts I had were to just change what we have to
> /etc/yum.repos/adobe.repo and have the repository be called [adobe]
> The other thought is to take the adobe part out of our main yum-conf and 
> just put in adobe's yum rpm.  This way people wouldn't be getting two 
> repo's pointing to the same place if they install adobe's yum rpm 
> later.  But if I do that, I would probably want to make that part of the 
> <office> group or something.


In general, I think 3rd party product repositories, and not the 3rd 
party general repositories like ATrpms etc, should not be mirrored but 
yum/yumex should be pointed to these 3rd party product repositories 
(servers) directly.