Should I disable the old updates repo?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> I updated using "yum update" and some repo files were left untouched
> while .rpmnew versions appeared in /etc/yum.repo.d. I moved them into
> place by hand (having backed up the old ones of course). Seemed to work.

If you have edited the files by hand, rpm updates won't overwrite the 
configuration files usually and instead create .rpmnew files which gives 
the user a chance to manually review and adopt the changes.

Rahul