[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

Tue Oct 10 23:37:41 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

C.M. Connelly wrote:
> "KS" == Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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.
> 
>    [...]
> 
>     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

you'd expect these people to know what they are doing, clueless should 
not be doing this.

>       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.
> 

easy workaround,

rm /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
touch /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

and the file wont get in the way anymore / anyless than it did previously.

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