[CentOS] yum overwriting

[William Warren]

nopers..no conversion both of these boxes were wiped and reloaded 
with CentOS-4 fromt he get go.  Both of them had their yum.conf's 
overwirtten as of last last update series.

Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:38 -0400, William Warren wrote:
> 
>>It overwrote yum.conf leaving only my dag statements and put the 
>>centos base stuff into /etc/yum.repos.d.  Is this something yum 
>>now does by default and if so is there a way to tell it to leave 
>>yum.conf alone and read only yum.conf?
>>
> 
> Are you moving from CentOS-3 to CentOS-4 via Yum?
> 
> The new yum does this by default ... there is no real way to turn it
> off.  But if you change both yum.conf and CentOS-Base.repo (rem out all
> the CentOS-Base.repo stuff with # ... change yum.conf to the way you
> want it) it should from that point on save your files (at the very
> least).
> 
> If you delete CentOS-Base.repo, it will keep coming back ... if you
> modify it, it should stay as is.
> 
> 
>>Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:09 -0400, William Warren wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there a way to keep yum from overwriting my yum.conf when i 
>>>>update the machine?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I should not overwrite yum.conf ... or if it does, there should be an
>>>yum.conf.rpmsave
>>>
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