"Jim Perrin" <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: >This also causes a related issue for RHEL users who want to use yum. >In posts to the yum mailing list, it's often recommended that RHEL >users grab yum from the centos repositories. As of the 4.4 release, >they can no longer do this as yum requires yumconf, provided by >centos-release, which will overwrite their /etc/redhat-release, and >/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources files among others. This either keeps them >from using our yum packages, or forces them to migrate to centos which >they may not be aware of if they install centos-release without >thinking it through. We've been using CentOS' yum on RHEL in conjunction with an empty RPM that provides yumconf. Having centos-release provide yumconf seems to complicate this without giving any particular advantage. >I see this as an interoperability issue, and it should be discussed a >bit. I'm not convinced that a yumconf package is the way to go, but >providing the files in centos-release doesn't seem to be the right way >either. Other opinions? I'd be happy to revert having a separate yumconf package, unless anyone has a better solution. Ron