[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

Wed Sep 6 09:16:26 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Ron Yorston wrote:
> 
> 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.

the advantage is better management ability on CentOS

>> 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.
> 

use your own yum-conf.rpm that also provides a centos-release !

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