"JN" == John Newbigin jnewbigin@ict.swin.edu.au
JN> The easiest workaround I found was to add reposdir=
JN> to your /etc/yum.conf [main] section.
JN> This means you can't add other repos into that directory JN> but I don't normally do that anyway.
Good if you don't, but if you wanted to, say, also use the RPMForge repositories, their package installs new .repo files into /etc/yum.repos.d. I'd imagine that most yumconf packages would do the same, as /etc/yum.repos.d is the standard location for those packages.
Claire
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