Yum ??

[Aldo Foot]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Aaron Konstam<akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 19:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:10:14 -0400
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>> > This command has problems with fedora-updates-testing .
>> > "Error getting repository data for fedora-updates-testing"
>>
>> You can find the names of the repos in the files stashed
>> in /etc/yum.repos.d/ the repo names are in [brackets]
>> as in:
>>
>> [updates-testing]
>>
>> [updates-testing-debuginfo]
>>
>> etc...
>>
> That is sort of confusing . One would think that the file itself is the
> repo. This have confused me also for awhile. I am glad you cleared this
> up.
> --

The repo name vs. file thing is release dependent.
In fedora we get individual files for respos., but in CentOS you get a
single text file with several entries -one per repo, in which case the
file name is not what it's used.

~af