[Centos] yum configuration files lost while/after updating ?

Tue Sep 21 15:18:30 UTC 2004
seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:10, Martin Hamant wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:06:04 -0400
> William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> disait:
> 
> > Yes i noticed that while installing the upgrades it installed a 
> > new yum.conf.
> > 
> 
> But here, there no yum.conf anymore ... this is a broken link.
> anyway /etc/yum.conf-SAVE contains my modified yum configuration. By
> renaming it i'm able to continue. Without doing that, yum simply don't
> have configuration file.

I would beg to differ.

yum 2.0.8 rpm definitely provides a yum.conf file.

The centos-yumconf scriptlets are eating it, most likely though.

-sv