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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you, Martin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's exactly the information I was looking for,
and it IS clear enough, definitely.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Have a nice day,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Daniel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>> Hello.<BR>> <BR>> I did try to find out some information about
centos-yumconf, but I<BR>> didn't find any.<BR>> I would like to know what
centos-yumconf rpm is made for and what it<BR>> does(just overwrite the
yum.conf file, or copy things from the<BR>> original and create a new one
?).<BR>> I dont' really understand the necessity of this package, because
I<BR>> thought that the version upgrade was made through the
$releasever<BR>> environment variable.<BR>> Any help would be much
appreciated.<BR><BR>Hello Dan,<BR><BR>Here it is what i've understood about
it:<BR><BR>!!! it's right SINCE centos 3.3 (it's not right for a 3.1
systems<BR>upgraded in 3.3 because of an old symbolic link ! ):<BR><BR>- yum RPM
put a "/etc/yum.conf" , each time yum RPM is upgraded,<BR>/etc/yum.conf is NOT
replaced.<BR><BR>- centos-yumconf put a "/etc/centos-yum.conf" , each time
centos-yumconf<BR>RPM is upgraded, "/etc/centos-yum.conf" is
*overwritten*.<BR><BR>the necessity of this package (i think ... ) is simply to
provide the<BR>proper clean configuration for centos ... who remain
in<BR>/etc/centos-yum.conf( which is never used by yum in *3.3* ),
while<BR>/etc/yum.conf is an exact copy of it, but this last one is used by
yum.<BR>So you never loose the original configuration while you make change
into<BR>/etc/yum.conf, in addition of that, don't worry about yum's RPM
updates<BR>which *could* be make changes to /etc/yum.conf, it *should* not:
changes<BR>are to be made (will be made) in /etc/centos-yum.conf.<BR><BR>He hope
it's clear enough :-]<BR><BR>--
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