On 3/15/07, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > > > Considering everyone has moved to including the yumconfigs in the > > -release package, I wonder why you are still shipping alternate yumconf > > packages? > > > > - KB > > Everyone hasn't *moved* to including the yum configuration in the main > release package, it's always been that way. And we've always pulled it > out. It's been that way since yum 1.0. Sorry people talking past each other alert :) What Karanbir is talking about is in the redhat-release, or centos-release package. When you go to the dell, dag, etc repositories, you get a dell-release, dag-release, livna-release etc that contains the /etc/livna-release file and the stuff to stick in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. I hope that is a bit clearer. > And I've always wondered why people put it in the main package of yum. > Yes, yum has to have a yum-conf in order for it to do anything, but why > replace an entire program, just to change it's configuration file. > Troy > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group > __________________________________________________ > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"