On 8/27/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>How can one change the yum's repositories? > >>> > >>Check this out > >>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/ > > > >Thanks, Rahul. I have read the whole document, but it cannot answer my > >question. For instance, how can I change the extras repository? I have > >tried kyum, but I do not know the syntax very well, as I am a novice > >user of Fedora, coming from Mandriva. > > > Not sure what you want to change in the repository files. The above > guide has bits and pieces about the yum configuration files. If you > prefer a GUI, use yumex or kyum from the extras repository > > #yum install yumex kyum > > Here is more details. > > Previous versions of yum had a single configuration in /etc/yum.conf > where all the repositories and yum configuration options were stored. > This was determined to be tedious to manage for users and it was hard > for new repositories to be added by packages. Now the main configuration > in in /etc/yum.conf and the repositories are in /etc/yum.repos.d. Each > of the repository files end with the extension ".repo" and are generally > named after the repository information they hold. The extras repository > is available for FC3 and FC4. For FC4, it is enabled by default and > the information is in the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo. > > More information about Fedora Extras is available from > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/#id2502937 Thanks again, Rahul. Yumex corresponds to what I was looking for. Paul
