Changing the yum's repositories

[Paul Smith]

On 8/27/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>How can one change the yum's repositories?
> >>>
> >>Check this out
> >>http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/
> >
> >Thanks, Rahul. I have read the whole document, but it cannot answer my
> >question. For instance, how can I change the extras repository? I have
> >tried kyum, but I do not know the syntax very well, as I am a novice
> >user of Fedora, coming from Mandriva.
> >
> Not sure what you want to change in the repository files.  The above
> guide has bits and pieces about the yum configuration files.  If you
> prefer a GUI, use yumex or kyum from the extras repository
> 
> #yum install yumex kyum
> 
> Here is more details.
> 
> Previous versions of yum had a single configuration in /etc/yum.conf
> where all the repositories and yum configuration options were stored.
> This was determined to be tedious to manage for users and it was hard
> for new repositories to be added by packages. Now the main configuration
> in in /etc/yum.conf and the repositories are in /etc/yum.repos.d. Each
> of the repository files end with the extension ".repo" and are generally
> named after the repository information they hold. The extras repository
> is  available for FC3 and FC4.  For FC4, it is enabled by default and
> the information is in the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo.
> 
> More information about Fedora Extras is available from
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/#id2502937

Thanks again, Rahul. Yumex corresponds to what I was looking for.

Paul