On 11/03/11 10:05, Andreas Petzold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in SL5 I replaced the stock yum repository files and /etc/yum.conf with files
> customized for our site (local repo mirrors, special excludes etc.) with an
> RPM with the following properties:
>
> Requires: redhat-release >= %{version}
> Provides: yum-conf
> Provides: epel-release-5
> Obsoletes: yum-conf
> Obsoletes: yum-conf-epel
> Obsoletes: epel-release
>
> With this setup we were able to prevent updates from SL from clobbering our
> repo setup. This worked fine, since the yum-conf package owns /etc/yum.conf
> on
> SL5.
>
> On SL6 however, yum.conf is owned by the yum package. It doesn't make sense
> for us to rebuild that just to insert our own yum.conf. Of course, we will
> have to change a few things to accomodate the new sl-release rpm, but that's
> fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
You're not the only one, I found this extremely irritating as we use
puppet to manage yum config.
Tim
