William Warren wrote: > h'm not. I don't want to HAVE to reconfigure my clients.. How do you install your systems? How do you make system changes? How do you do any changes? This is what I don't understand at all. This has nothing to do with YUM. > nor do i want to HAVE to add a proxy line into my > yum.conf files. But what do you do for system installation/customization? Do you use a Kickstart disk? Or do you manually install the system and manually configure? How do you make other changes to a system? Again, this is what I don't understand at all. And it has nothing to do with YUM. > I actually do agree with les it should just work w/o > having to screw around with config files. Why not just do it when you install the system? I mean, I assume you're doing it then, correct? Or do your computers read your brain when you install? > Please don't accuse me of picking and choosing Bryan. My point was you where clearly making an _inapplicable_ argument just because it fits. There are countless configuration details that you do -- even if just once (like adding a proxy line to yum.conf). What makes this so different from any other install-time configuration detail? > It is not what i did at all. I chose to add the ftp lines > to simply get things working again. Then why couldn't you put in the proxy line instead? You only have to to do it once. > it is not something that should have to be done at all. I'm still failing the point here. Transparent proxies do not work for a lot of things. > If i had more than 3-5 machine here i would fire up another > one as a dedicated mirror. And that's great. But even then, you'd have to change the repository configuration. So what's the issue? -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)