The nesting is getting a little deep.
Michael Hennebry wrote:
After the install, I would restore the directory that listed all my repositories. This is a step I am not sure about. I have a vague recollection that that is not sufficient. What else would I need to do?
Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a command that I could use to record the repositories I am using and restore them after the install?
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Actually, you could just look at /etc/yum.repos.d. In there, you can also check to see if the repo is enabled, or if there's includes or excludes. We do that here, because there are systems we do *NOT* want some things updated without someone doing it manually, like the ones with very old NVidia cards, where we have to manually rebuild the proprietary drivers, or production systems, where the teams want to test the updates before they go into production.
Maybe I was not clear. I'm refering to reinstalling CentOS. My current CentOS hangs after trying to start gdm. My diagnostic efforts have been for nought, so I want to more or less start over. I already have a "list" of all the repositories I want. It's the contents of the aforementioned /etc/yum/repos.d .
I could try to install every single repository by hand. I don't remember how I installed most of them, but I could try. I would probably succeed, but its not a certainty. Following that, I could install all the packages by hand. I could edit my list of installed packages and make a massive yum command.