On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 14:18 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > My /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo reads > ======================================== > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > ======================================== > > I've looked up the nearest repositories in > <http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/> > and assume that I should edit fedora.repo as below. > Is that correct? > Do I actually need to specify ARCH? > > ======================================== > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/$ARCH/os/ > http://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/fedora/3/$ARCH/os/ > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > ======================================== > > I haven't seen any documentation for this. > Is there some? > "man yum" doesn't seem to cover this. What you've got looks fine to me. > Incidentally, does yum still read /etc/yum.conf ? Yes; it sets options common to all repositories. > Mine reads > ========================================= > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=20 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=1 > > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo > # in /etc/yum.repos.d > ========================================= > > Is that reasonable? > Should I specify ARCH in this file? No, yum should figure that out for itself. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
