yum upgrades always seem to break the yum.conf file. This is an upstream issue (as it's present in FC2 as well). I've gotten so irritated by it I have a cron that I run every 10 minutes to restore "my" yum.conf and apt .list files. Martin Hamant wrote: >Hello centOS users, > >Today i've installed a fresh centos 3.1, and modified the [update] >section of my/etc/yum.conf, to point on my own update repository. > >My update repository (3.1) contains exactly the same content that the >official one. Update was successful but now /etc/yum.conf is missing :( > >Here it is what i've noticed during the update process: > ># cat /etc/redhat-release >CentOS release 3.1 (final) > >#yum update > >[...] >warning: /etc/yum.conf created as /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew >yum 100 % done 96/191 >[...] >warning: /etc/centos-base-yum.conf saved as >/etc/centos-base-yum.conf.rpmsave Completing update for yum - 110/191 >[...] >Transaction(s) Complete > ># cat /etc/redhat-release >CentOS release 3.3 (final) > >=> files /etc/yum.conf* >/etc/yum.conf -> /etc/centos-base-yum.conf ( Broken link! read the >rest) >/etc/yum.conf.rpmnew >/etc/yum.conf-SAVE > >=> files /etc/centos* > >/etc/centos-base-yum.conf.rpmsave >/etc/centos-yum.conf > >I don't understand what happened :-O >An idea ? > > >