Settings for /etc/yum.conf

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:50, Levin Fritz wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:20:15 -0500
> Jon Shorie <jshorie at medinaco.org> wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for some good repositories for keeping fedora boxes up to date 
> > using yum.  Does anyone have any suggestions.
> I use the freshrpms and dag repos:
> 
> [freshrpms]
> name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
> 
> [dag]
> name=Dag Apt Repository for Fedora Core 1 - i386 - dag
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
> 

May want to check out http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/,
http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/, http://dag.wieers.com,/ and the
freshrpms-list at
http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/freshrpms-list.  It covers
stuff from several cooperative repositories.  Dag, Axel, and Matthias
Saou (Mr. freshrpms himself) are all very active on it.

The Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO by Eric Raymond is worth a
look:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html.
See caveats in recent ESR threads on this list.

Watch out for atrpms dependency problems if you include that one.  Axel
Thimm has a lot of good stuff, but seems to have something of a "my way
or the highway" attitude about dependencies.

In my experience fedora.us, stable, and livna do not play nicely with
the "freshrpms group", or vice versa.  Be careful what you throw into
the mix.  "Too many (rpm) cooks spoil the (Fedora) broth."

(Then of course, there are the apt-only repositories like planetccrma.)

My current yum.conf looks like:

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[os]
name=Fedora Core $releasever Linux for $basearch - os
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
	http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1

[updates]
name=Fedora Core $releasever Linux for $basearch - updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
	http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1

# Commented out to stop Mozilla Firebird "war" with Dag's mozilla-firebird
#[stable]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever Linux for $basearch on SRB radar0 - stable
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/stable/released/fedora-core-1
#       http://radar0.larc.nasa.gov/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable

[at-stable]
name=ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 stable
baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/1/en/i386/at-stable

#[at-good]
#name=ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 good
#baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/1/en/i386/at-good

#[at-testing]
#name=ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 testing
#baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/1/en/i386/at-testing

#[at-bleeding]
#name=ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 bleeding
#baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/fedora/1/en/i386/at-bleeding

[newrpms.sunsite.dk]
name=NewRPMS.sunsite.dk for Fedora Core 1
baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc1

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Core 1 freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms

[dag]
name=Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag

#[jpackage15-generic-free]
#name=JPackage 1.5, generic free
#baseurl=ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.5/generic/free
#	ftp://us.dl.sf.net/pub/sourceforge/jpackage/direct_download/1.5/generic/free

#[jpackage15-generic-non-free]
#name=JPackage 1.5, generic non-free
#baseurl=ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.5/generic/non-free
#	ftp://us.dl.sf.net/pub/sourceforge/jpackage/direct_download/1.5/generic/non-free

#[jpackage15-fc1]
#name=JPackage 1.5 for Fedora Core 1
#baseurl=ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.5/fedora-1/free
#	ftp://us.dl.sf.net/pub/sourceforge/jpackage/direct_download/1.5/fedora-1/free

#[2.6testkernels]
#name=Test Linux 2.6-test prerelease kernels for RHL9/rawhide
#baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
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To just keep up to date for a vanilla system, limit to the first 2 entries.

Phil