edit yum config file

[Paul Higgins]

Hi,

I'm a little confused as to why there are two baseurls in several of the 
categories (base, updates, etc.) of your yum.conf file.  I can see that 
several are commented out with a # but there seems to clearly be more than 
one baseurl for several things.  Does this simply mean that yum looks in both 
these categories at the same time?

I'm also curious about several of the other lines in your yum.conf (e.g. 
"tolerant, exactarch, obsoletes", etc.). 

Here's my yum.conf, which is very straightforward:
----------------
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Base
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.0/base/
  
[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Updates
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.0/update/

[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Extras
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.0/extras/

[freshrpms]
name=Fresh rpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/4.0/ppc/freshrpms/
-----------------
Based on your advice, I take it that I should never point yum to rpms from YDL 
4.0 if I'm using 4.1?  Are you aware of rpm repos (other than the obvious YDL 
ones, which are currently down) that have been updated for 4.1 yet?  The 
repos I currently have bookmarked are still stuck at YDL 4.0.

-PRH 

On Saturday 17 June 2006 21:27, Derick Centeno wrote:
> Hi Bob:
> I have a different approach regarding yum.conf, if you are willing to
> consider it.
>
> First, here is my yum.conf file which I use within YDL 4.1.  Yes, it
> works very well and it is not broken nor does it point to broken links,
> mirrors or other dead ends:
>
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=yellowdog-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> obsoletes=1
>
> [base]
> name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 Base
> baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.1/base/
> baseurl=http://ydl.osuosl.org/yum/4.1/base/
> #baseurl=http://mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/yum/4.1/base/
>
> [updates]
> name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 Updates
> baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.1/update/
> baseurl=http://ydl.osuosl.org/yum/4.1/updates/
> #baseurl=http://mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/yum/4.1/
> updates/
>
> [extras]
> name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 Extras
> baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.1/extras/
> baseurl=http://ydl.osuosl.org/yum/4.1/extras/
> #baseurl=http://http:mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/yum/
> 4.1/extras/
>
> [update]
> name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 Update
> baseurl=http://ydl.osuosl.org/yum/4.1/update/
> #baseurl=http://mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/yum/4.1/
> update/