Michael Hennebry wrote: > The nesting is getting a little deep. > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> After the install, >>> I would restore the directory that listed all my repositories. >>> This is a step I am not sure about. >>> I have a vague recollection that that is not sufficient. >>> What else would I need to do? > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Is there a command that I could use to record the >> repositories I am using and restore them after the install? > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Actually, you could just look at /etc/yum.repos.d. In there, you can >> also >> check to see if the repo is enabled, or if there's includes or excludes. >> We do that here, because there are systems we do *NOT* want some things >> updated without someone doing it manually, like the ones with very old >> NVidia cards, where we have to manually rebuild the proprietary drivers, >> or production systems, where the teams want to test the updates before >> they go into production. > > Maybe I was not clear. > I'm refering to reinstalling CentOS. > My current CentOS hangs after trying to start gdm. > My diagnostic efforts have been for nought, > so I want to more or less start over. > I already have a "list" of all the repositories I want. > It's the contents of the aforementioned /etc/yum/repos.d . > > I could try to install every single repository by hand. > I don't remember how I installed most of them, but I could try. > I would probably succeed, but its not a certainty. > Following that, I could install all the packages by hand. > I could edit my list of installed packages and make a massive yum command. Ok. What we use here at work are, besides the default repos, rpmfusion (free and non-free), epel, and Adobe (you know why...). For *very* special cases (like NVidia cards that *are* supported), I've got elrepo (with only the things needed for the NVidia card and xorg included from elrepo). mark