Thank you, Martin. That's exactly the information I was looking for, and it IS clear enough, definitely. Have a nice day, Daniel > 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 :-] -- Martin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20041019/6f76a9e3/attachment-0005.html>