yum problem with fedora.us repos

Justin Georgeson justin.georgeson at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 18:15:47 UTC 2004


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:45:45 +0100, Christian Hauser <c.hauser at active.ch> wrote:
> > Regarding yum.conf, the new recommended way is to have a separate
> > <packager>.repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d for each repo you use. So you
> > might add a file fedora.us-extras.repo in /etc/yum.repo.d for that
> > repo.
> 
> So yum doesn't care anymore about yum.conf and only uses
> /etc/yum.repo.d/*.repo files?

It still uses yum.conf. But the .repo files simplifies things.
Maintainers can now put together a -release package with their GPG key
and all the .repo files, so you just install the -release package and
go, rather than download and install the key and manually enter the
repo info in a monolithic yum.conf. Freshrpms has already released a
freshrpms-release package like this.




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