Andrew Konosky wrote:
"However this moring few mails adviced me that the livna shuold work
as long as you use fedora extras to go with it together, but I still
can not yum install the mplayer as I used the sample yum.conf, and my
intention is not to use many unecessary repositories, so I want to
try, and I want to know what have I missed in that sample yum.conf I
copied from Fedora.org, because in my current level I can't see what's
wrong with it. My point is if other people certified that can yum
install the mplayer and I failed, that means I need to understand the
use of yum.conf further."
Well, as I said before, the alternate repositoires /ARE/ necessary if
the ones you are using now don't work. That's why I said you should
use them by removing the # in front of them. Anything with a # at the
beginning of the line /*is not*/ part of the config file. It is
considered a comment. In order to activate the alternate repositories,
delete the #'s. *Deactivate the testing and unstable servers by/
putting/ comments in front of them!
*
Now, since you are worried about extra unneccessary servers, you need
to make multiple config files. Set yum.conf, which is the default, to
use what servers you want to use regularly and comment out the rest.
When you use yum, it will only use these servers. But if something,
like mplayer, won't work with you default servers, you can try
different servers. Make a copy of the yum.conf, rename it to something
like yum-all.conf. You can make a yum-livina.conf to only use the
livina repository.
To use multiple config files, use the -c option. For example:
[root@localhost root]# yum install mplayer - uses default yum.conf
[root@localhost root]# yum -c /etc/yum-all.conf install mplayer
- uses config file with all servers enabled
[root@localhost root]# yum -c /etc/yum-livina.conf - uses only
livina servers
Andrew, Many thanks for the tip of using multiple config files, it is
real a big help in using yum - I actually had started making multiple
config file like : yum.config.orig, yum.config.livna,
yum.config.SeaMonkey etc. , when ever I have a desured repository to
use, I just cp /etc/yum.conf.xxxxx /etc/yum.conf , and then confirm
to override . But this time you give me a new and better way of using
the yum.conf, thanks again.
