changed yum.conf and might have shot myself in the foot

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 thomas.cameron at camerontech.com wrote:

> All -
> 
> I just changed my yum.conf so that it looks like this:
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=20
> 
> [development]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
> baseurl=ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/$basearch
> 
> Basically I am pointing to mirrors.kernel.org instead of Red Hat's (slow)
> server.
> 
> I think I may have screwed up though - I think I just updated my system
> from Rawhide.  Am I right?  Is this a Bad Thing(TM) or is it OK?

I'm assuming you have a one of the fc3test versions installed (and
hence posting to this list). Rawhide provides updates to the test
installs - so, getting updates off rawhide is correct behavior. (until
FC3 release)

Satish