On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:02:37 +0200 Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> disait: > Martin Hamant wrote: > > Hello centos community, > > > > I have a personal repository with self-made RPMs, and i need to > > include this repository to yum.conf. But i've noticed that yum > > configuration is overwritten when yum is updated. > > No, it shouldn't: > > [root at www2 conf]# rpm -qc yum|grep conf > /etc/yum.conf > > And in the spec file: > > %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/yum.conf > > > I can't update yum.conf manually on > > my servers each time yum is updated ... > > But centos-yumconf did (until Sep 14, 2004) just link > /etc/centos-yum.conf to /etc/yum.conf. > > Is that, what you're seeing? ho ok, maybe it's corrected since this incident (Subject:[Centos] yum configuration files lost while/after updating ? 21 Sep 2004) ... i see that there are no symbolic links on a fresh centos 3.3 about yum configuration. centos-yum.conf and yum.conf are two different files. centos-yumconf SRPMS confirm that /etc/centos-yum.conf is overwrited: %attr(0644,root,root) /etc/centos-yum.conf so i'm happy. > > > Is anyone have an idea ? > > I have my own yumconf package with a preposterously high Epoch - 10. > So yum won't install centos-yumconf over my package :) > centos-yumconf overwrite centos-yum.conf if i believe the SRPM. Ho do you make the centos-yumconf package to not overwrite you own package? do you changed the name or release version ? Do you simply replace /etc/yum.conf ? Thanks ! -- Martin