"KS" == Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org

KS> Just to do a recap to make sure we all understand the KS> position here.

KS> There are 4 sorts of user cases, been addressed so far.

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KS> did i miss someone ?

Yes.

5. People who have replaced the centos-yumconf package (not just files in that package) with their own yumconf package that does not provide repository configuration files with the same names as the (old) centos-yumconf and the (current) centos-release package; i.e., CentOS-Base.repo.

For those folks, the 4.4 redhat-release package plunks down a CentOS-Base.repo file. As my repo file is called HMC-Math-Base.repo, yum ignores my file and uses the new CentOS-Base.repo file instead for repository sections defined in both files.

Adding ``enabled=0'' lines to the repository section in the CentOS-Base.repo file causes yum to complain about multiply defined repositories.

Being able to replace the centos-yumconf package was a fairly low-key intervention that allowed me to maintain a pristine mirror of the upstream CentOS tree and do a basic install from that tree using a kickstart file, then, in a setup script run on first reboot, replace the centos-yumconf with my own, do updates, install local packages, and so forth.

I'm not eager to have to rebuild the centos-release package for each update, so maybe the answer is to make my yumconf package supply CentOS-Base.repo and install it with the --force flag, but I preferred having a different name so that it would be obvious that we were using a local mirror.

From my perspective, having the separate centos-yumconf preserves this behavior while remaining transparent to users who don't need to override repositories.

Claire

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