On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell <mitch48@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:43:10PM -0400, Phil Hagen wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to specify just a certain repository (or more than > > > one) to use for yum actions. For example, I have about 5 or so > > > repositories in /etc/yum.conf because I like to keep an eye on the > > > non-official > > ... > > > yum --repo=updates-released update > > > > How does this differ from -c [config file] > > > > yum -c /etc/yum-updates-released update > > yum -c /etc/yum-watch-list list updates > > yum -c /etc/yum-watch-list update foo > > > > To me it seems that multiple config files works just fine. > > If I wanted to I could script up a wrapper (my-yum) that > > did the same thing you are asking (use -c under the hood). > > That is more complicated to set up and maintain. For example, you have > to list your base repositories in all config files (so dependencies can > be satisfied), so now you have to have the same configuration data in > multiple files, and that duplication is never a good thing. > > I have multiple repositories listed, but sometimes I just want to get an > "official" Fedora Core update; the only current way is multiple config > files, which is irritating. Multiple config files (with duplicate info) currently works. The alternative is to add group-repostiories support to yum. Something like the following in /etc/yum.conf -------- default-rep-group=rep-1,rep2 group all-repositories=rep-1,rep-2,rep-3 group my-special-rep=rep-3 [rep-1] baseurl=... [rep-2] baseurl=... [rep-3] baseurl=... --------- Now, one can do the following: yum update yum -g my-special-rep check-update Satish
