yum in FC3 configuration file

[david walcroft]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> 
>> Would someone post a yum.conf for me?
>> Because seem that the yum in FC3 is changed and I don't know how to do
>> because I am still using FC2's yum.conf.
>> Is it still work ??
> 
> 
> yum configuration has changed for FC3. There is a generic /etc/yum.conf 
> file that you use to set options that will apply to all repositories 
> (like the "main" section in FC2 yum.conf), and then separate files in 
> the /etc/yum.repos.d for each repository. So, to convert from FC2, split 
> your existing yum.conf into separate files for each repository and put 
> the files in directory /etc/yum.repos.d. Then rename 
> /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew to /etc/yum.conf so set up the defaults. Change 
> distroverpkg in the resulting yum.conf from redhat-release to 
> fedora-release. Everything should then work as before.
> 
> Paul.
> 

Paul,
      A question please,how do you seperate repo's with FC3 yum 
previously you simply had files called by 'yum -c <file>' to
prevent distro mixing is this still usable.

   Thanks   david