The easiest workaround I found was to add reposdir= to your /etc/yum.conf [main] section. This means you can't add other repos into that directory but I don't normally do that anyway. John. Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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. > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin