> Since I have about 50 SL machines I keep a local mirror of the part of
> the SL repository we use.  For that reason I would prefer that
> /etc/yum.conf not be overwritten on an upgrade.  Of course, I may be in
> the minority on this.

Join the minority club.  About 385 machines here which are or will be SL by
Fall '05.  We have one primary mirror which feeds about 7 or 8 secondary
mirrors, with our own repository for out-of-band RPMs.

Dan W.