yum should have an include directive and/or an include directory (like apache) so we can set our custom local configuration files. If we want to use a specific yum mirror and/or our local repository, it should be set in our local files that should never be updated. To do that simply, yum could call a preprocessing tool like m4 for the yum.conf file. By the way, is there a way that the yum.conf file sets the http_proxy variable? Martin Hamant wrote: >On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:00:45 +0200 >"dan1" <dan1 at edenpics.com> disait: > > > >>Hello. >> >>I did try to find out some information about centos-yumconf, but I >>didn't find any. >>I would like to know what centos-yumconf rpm is made for and what it >>does(just overwrite the yum.conf file, or copy things from the >>original and create a new one ?). >>I dont' really understand the necessity of this package, because I >>thought that the version upgrade was made through the $releasever >>environment variable. >>Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> > >Hello Dan, > >Here it is what i've understood about it: > >!!! it's right SINCE centos 3.3 (it's not right for a 3.1 systems >upgraded in 3.3 because of an old symbolic link ! ): > >- yum RPM put a "/etc/yum.conf" , each time yum RPM is upgraded, >/etc/yum.conf is NOT replaced. > >- centos-yumconf put a "/etc/centos-yum.conf" , each time centos-yumconf >RPM is upgraded, "/etc/centos-yum.conf" is *overwritten*. > >the necessity of this package (i think ... ) is simply to provide the >proper clean configuration for centos ... who remain in >/etc/centos-yum.conf( which is never used by yum in *3.3* ), while >/etc/yum.conf is an exact copy of it, but this last one is used by yum. >So you never loose the original configuration while you make change into >/etc/yum.conf, in addition of that, don't worry about yum's RPM updates >which *could* be make changes to /etc/yum.conf, it *should* not: changes >are to be made (will be made) in /etc/centos-yum.conf. > >He hope it's clear enough :-] > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041019/7d106763/attachment-0005.html>