Yum documentation

[Kam Leo]

On 4/22/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Chris Tyler wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:09:49 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> Is the format of *.repo files (in /etc/yum.repos.d/) described
> >> anywhere?
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if one can have several databases for the same repo?
> >> And a mirrorlist as well?
> >
> > See 'man yum.conf' -- baseurl can have more than one URL and can be used
> > in conjunction with mirrorlist.
>
> Thanks.
> In excuse, I assumed that "man yum.conf" deals solely with yum.conf .
> I should have thought description of the format of *.repo files
> would come under "man yum" - or there should at least be a pointer there
> to the location of such a description.
>
> A good "yum FAQ" would be useful -
> advising on the steps to take if yum fails, for various reasons
> (dependency conflicts, etc).

Conflicts! If you use just the "official" or "approved" repositories
like a good FC user should there should not be any or wait a day for
the mirrors to sync. ;-)

Documentation: Have you tried:

http://www.linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

and
 http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO.html#toc1

> --
> Timothy Murphy