[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

Wed Sep 6 04:17:11 UTC 2006
seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu>

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:40 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> > > 
> > > 
> > > The purpose of this change is so that we mirror what is done by
> > > upstream.
> > > 
> > > They provide their update sources in redhat-release file.
> > > 
> > > A separate RPM for yumconf (and up2date-conf) is redundant.
> > > 
> > > Have it be part of yum or up2date is bad ...
> > > 
> > > I have no problem with a sperate yumconf package, but it is not in
> > > keeping with upstream. 
> > Does the upstream contain the yum confg files?  If not then I don't 
> > think CentOS should be adding the files there.  I don't use up2date so I 
> > can't comment on that.
> 
> RHEL-4 doesn't contain yum, however the rhn sources file is in redhat-
> release.
> 
> As I said, we can change it back if it is a huge problem, but it makes
> since to do all the update sources in one file (CentOS release).
> 
> Then, if you want to make your own distro ... replace that one file and
> all your update streams can be adjusted.
> 

This is what I did yesterday for duke's internal centos 4 release. I
just made a new centos-release and was done.

-sv