[CentOS] yum setup help and extra repos including centosplus

Maciej Żenczykowski maze at cela.pl
Mon Jun 6 19:01:33 UTC 2005


the way I'd do it is keep centosplus disabled, and only enable it with a 
command line option when wanting to install/update something from 
centosplus

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Robert Hanson wrote:

> greetings
>
> recently i asked a question and i was directed to the possibility that a
> certain fully enabled compiled kernel for CentOS 4 might help me.
>
> so, i am looking at
>
> http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt
>
> and wondering how to cover all bases....
>
> can i cover all bases if i put an *blanket* package(s) exclude in
> /etc/yum.conf ?
>
> or do i have to put package(s) exclude in every config file in the
> /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory ?
>
> specifically, the CentOS-Base.repo file. do i put it at the top and then it
> will be in effect for all sub-repos in that file??
>
> at the top of the CentOS-Base.repo only? :)
>
> i realize that i can do it as a command line switch yet then my brains will
> fall out trying to remember everything.
>
> regards and tia for any clarification.
>
> - rh
>
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