On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Matt Morgan wrote: > When I first installed fedora core, I was entirely clueless about yum, > although I knew about apt from the debian experience I have. Anyway I > didn't see that great page that says, basically, rpm.livna.org will > provide most of the things that aren't provided by fedora.us, and that > the combination of the two will mostly do everything. > > So before I figured that out, I needed to install k3b, wine, libmad, and > as a result I have a bunch of other repositories listed in my yum.conf. > Freshrpms (libmad and other k3b dependencies), xcyb.org (k3b), > sunsite.dk (wine), for example. I was about to add Dag Wieers' > repository to get Java, when I decided I needed to clean up yum.conf. > > What happens if I remove them now, and no other repository updates one > of the packages I have installed? Do I get some warning that I have > "orphaned" packages? Or do I just have to figure out myself which > packages are no longer being updated? (Or try to figure out ahead of > time, which source provides which packages). Will work fine untill some packages get updated that changes/breaks existing dependencies. At that time - yum will give nice errors - indicating what depency is broken. Yum don't care if this bad dependency is from orphaned package or not. And for your sanity - to know what packages are orphaned - you can do: yum list extras > The reason I ask is, yum will go faster if I have only the minimum > number of repositories set up. So I want that file to be as short as > possible. Also, obviously, I don't want to use bandwidth at any more > repositories than is necessary. You can maintain multiple yum.conf files /etc/yum.conf - basic repositories /etc/yum.conf.full - full listing of repos. yum update [frequent usage] yum -c /etc/yum.conf.full update [infrequent usage] And when not doing updates - use local/cache only mode yum -C remove package Satish
