On 4/27/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:08 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: > > On 4/27/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 4/27/06, Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > You may want to consult the man page for yum, and/or the documentation > > > at http://centos.org/docs/4/ about yum. > > > > > > yum list compat\* will show you the available compat packages. Install > > > the ones you need. > > Thanks. I didn't know that I can use regex patterns for yum. It's much > > simpler now. > > <snip sig> > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/ > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/ > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ > > and on your local system > > file:///usr/share/doc/yum-2.4.2 > > man yum.conf > man yum-builddep # Not too usefull for us casual users? > man yumdownloader > man yum > man yum-shell > man yum-arch > > I think there's some more, relating to plugins etc. Googling with > advanced along the lines of > > yum site:centos.org > > IIRC will also get stuff mentioned in the lists (I'm thinking mostly > about protect base ATM to keep non-base repos from munging your system). > > HTH Whew! By the time I finish the yum docs, a new yum will be here! tx nat