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NAME

       yum.conf - Configuration file for yum(8).

DESCRIPTION

       Yum uses a configuration file at /etc/yum/yum.conf.

       Additional  configuration  files are also read from the directories set
       by the  reposdir  option  (default  is  ‘/etc/yum/repos.d’).   See  the
       reposdir option below for further details.

PARAMETERS

       There  are two types of sections in the yum configuration file(s): main
       and repository. Main defines all global  configuration  options.  There
       should  be  only one main section. The repository section(s) define the
       configuration for each repository/server. There should be one  or  more
       repository sections.

[main] OPTIONS

       The  [main]  section  must exist for yum to do anything. It consists of
       the following options:

              cachedir Directory where yum  should  store  its  cache  and  db
              files. The default is ‘/var/cache/yum’.

              persistdir  Directory  where  yum  should store information that
              should   persist   over   multiple   runs.   The   default    is
              ‘/var/lib/yum’.

              keepcache Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. Determines whether or not yum keeps
              the cache of headers and packages after successful installation.
              Default is ’1’ (keep files)

              reposdir  A  list of directories where yum should look for .repo
              files   which   define   repositories   to   use.   Default   is
              ‘/etc/yum/repos.d’.  Each  file in this directory should contain
              one or more repository sections as  documented  in  [repository]
              options  below.  These  will  be  merged  with  the repositories
              defined  in  /etc/yum/yum.conf  to  form  the  complete  set  of
              repositories that yum will use.

              debuglevel  Debug message output level. Practical range is 0-10.
              Default is ‘2’.

              errorlevel Error message output level. Practical range is  0-10.
              Default is ‘2’.

              logfile  Full directory and file name for where yum should write
              its log file.

              gpgcheck Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. This tells yum  whether  or  not  it
              should  perform  a GPG signature check on packages. When this is
              set  in  the  [main]  section  it  sets  the  default  for   all
              repositories.  This  option  also  determines  whether or not an
              install of a package from a local RPM file will be GPG signature
              checked. The default is ‘0’.

              repo_gpgcheck  Either  ‘1’ or ‘0’. This tells yum whether or not
              it should perform a GPG signature check on  the  repodata.  When
              this  is  set  in the [main] section it sets the default for all
              repositories. The default is ‘0’.

              skip_broken Either ‘1’ or  ‘0’.  Resolve  depsolve  problems  by
              removing   packages   that   are   causing   problems  from  the
              transaction.

              assumeyes Either ‘1’ or  ‘0’.  Determines  whether  or  not  yum
              prompts for confirmation of critical actions. Default is ‘0’ (do
              prompt).
              Command-line option: -y

              alwaysprompt Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. Without this  option,  yum  will
              not  prompt  for  confirmation  when  the list of packages to be
              installed exactly matches  those  given  on  the  command  line.
              Unless  assumeyes  is  enabled, it will still prompt for package
              removal, or when additional packages need  to  be  installed  to
              fulfill dependencies. Default is ‘1’.

              tolerant  Either  ‘1’  or  ‘0’.  If  enabled,  then  yum will be
              tolerant of errors on the command line with regard to  packages.
              For  example: if you request to install foo, bar and baz and baz
              is installed; yum  won’t  error  out  complaining  that  baz  is
              already installed. Default to ‘0’ (not tolerant).
              Command-line option: -t

              exclude  List  of  packages to exclude from updates or installs.
              This should be  a  space  separated  list.   Shell  globs  using
              wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed.

              exactarch  Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. Set to ‘1’ to make yum update only
              update the architectures of packages that  you  have  installed.
              ie:  with  this  enabled yum will not install an i686 package to
              update an i386 package. Default is ‘1’.

              installonlypkgs List  of  packages  that  should  only  ever  be
              installed,  never  updated. Kernels in particular fall into this
              category. Defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-
              enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported.

              installonly_limit  Number  of packages listed in installonlypkgs
              to keep installed at the same time. Setting to 0  disables  this
              feature. Default is ’0’. Note that this functionality used to be
              in the "installonlyn" plugin, where this option was altered via.
              tokeep.   Note  that  as of version 3.2.24, yum will now look in
              the yumdb for a installonly attribute on installed packages.  If
              that attribute is "keep", then they will never be removed.

              kernelpkgnames  List  of package names that are kernels. This is
              really only here for the updating of kernel packages and  should
              be removed out in the yum 2.1 series.

              showdupesfromrepos  Either ‘0’ or ‘1’. Set to ‘1’ if you wish to
              show any duplicate packages from any  repository,  from  package
              listings  like the info or list commands. Set to ‘0’ if you want
              only to see the newest packages from any repository.  Default is
              ‘0’.

              obsoletes  This  option  only  has  affect  during an update. It
              enables yum’s obsoletes  processing  logic.  Useful  when  doing
              distribution  level  upgrades.  See also the yum upgrade command
              documentation for more details (yum(8)).  Default is ‘true’.
              Command-line option: --obsoletes

              overwrite_groups Either ‘0’ or  ‘1’.  Used  to  determine  yum’s
              behaviour  if  two or more repositories offer the package groups
              with the same name. If overwrite_groups is ‘1’  then  the  group
              packages  of  the  last  matching  repository  will  be used. If
              overwrite_groups is  ‘0’  then  the  groups  from  all  matching
              repositories will be merged together as one large group.

              enable_group_conditionals  Either ‘0’ or ‘1’. Determines whether
              yum will allow the use of conditionals packages. Default is  ‘1’
              (package conditionals are allowed).

              group_package_types  List  of  the following: optional, default,
              mandatory. Tells yum which type of packages in  groups  will  be
              installed  when  ’groupinstall’ is called.  Default is: default,
              mandatory

              installroot Specifies an alternative  installroot,  relative  to
              which all packages will be installed.
              Command-line option: --installroot

              distroverpkg  The package used by yum to determine the "version"
              of the distribution. This can be any installed package.  Default
              is  ‘redhat-release’. You can see what provides this manually by
              using: "yum whatprovides redhat-release".

              diskspacecheck Either ‘0’ or ‘1’. Set this to ‘0’ to disable the
              checking  for  sufficient  diskspace before a RPM transaction is
              run. Default is ‘1’ (perform the check).

              tsflags Comma or space separated list of  transaction  flags  to
              pass  to  the  rpm  transaction  set. These include ’noscripts’,
              ’notriggers’, ’nodocs’, ’test’, and ’repackage’.   You  can  set
              all/any of them. However, if you don’t know what these do in the
              context of an rpm transaction set you’re best leaving it  alone.
              Default is an empty list.

              recent  Number  of days back to look for ‘recent’ packages added
              to a repository.  Used by the list recent  command.  Default  is
              ‘7’.

              retries  Set  the number of times any attempt to retrieve a file
              should retry before returning an  error.  Setting  this  to  ‘0’
              makes yum try forever. Default is ‘10’.

              keepalive  Either  ‘0’ or ‘1’. Set whether HTTP keepalive should
              be used for HTTP/1.1 servers that support it. This  can  improve
              transfer   speeds  by  using  one  connection  when  downloading
              multiple files from a repository. Default is ‘1’.

              timeout Number of seconds to wait for a connection before timing
              out. Defaults to 30 seconds. This may be too short of a time for
              extremely overloaded sites.

              http_caching Determines how upstream HTTP caches are  instructed
              to handle any HTTP downloads that Yum does. This option can take
              the following values:

              ‘all’ means that all HTTP downloads should be cached.

              ‘packages’ means that  only  RPM  package  downloads  should  be
              cached (but not repository metadata downloads).

              ‘none’ means that no HTTP downloads should be cached.

              The  default  is  ‘all’.  This  is  recommended  unless  you are
              experiencing  caching  related  issues.  Try  to  at  least  use
              ‘packages’ to minimize load on repository servers.

              throttle  Enable bandwidth throttling for downloads. This option
              can be expressed as a absolute data rate  in  bytes/sec.  An  SI
              prefix  (k,  M or G) may be appended to the bandwidth value (eg.
              ‘5.5k’ is 5.5 kilobytes/sec, ‘2M’ is 2 Megabytes/sec).

              Alternatively, this option can specify the percentage  of  total
              bandwidth  to use (eg. ‘60%’). In this case the bandwidth option
              should be used to specify the maximum available bandwidth.

              Set to ‘0’ to disable bandwidth throttling. This is the default.

              bandwidth Use to specify the maximum available network bandwidth
              in bytes/second.  Used with  the  throttle  option  (above).  If
              throttle  is  a  percentage  and bandwidth is ‘0’ then bandwidth
              throttling will be disabled. If throttle is expressed as a  data
              rate (bytes/sec) then this option is ignored. Default is ‘0’ (no
              bandwidth throttling).

              sslcacert Path to the directory containing the databases of  the
              certificate   authorities   yum   should   use   to  verify  SSL
              certificates. Defaults to none - uses system default

              sslverify Boolean - should yum verify SSL certificates/hosts  at
              all. Defaults to True

              sslclientcert  Path to the SSL client certificate yum should use
              to connect to repos/remote sites Defaults to none.

              sslclientkey Path to the  SSL  client  key  yum  should  use  to
              connect to repos/remote sites Defaults to none.

              history_record  Boolean  - should yum record history entries for
              transactions. This takes some disk space, and some extra time in
              the transactions. But it allows how to know a lot of information
              about what has happened before, and display it to the user  with
              the  history  info/list/summary  commands. yum also provides the
              history undo/redo commands. Defaults to True.

              history_record_packages This is a list  of  package  names  that
              should be recorded as having helped the transaction. yum plugins
              have an API to add themselves to this, so it should not normally
              be  necessary  to  add packages here. Not that this is also used
              for the packages to look for in --version. Defaults to rpm, yum,
              yum-metadata-parser.

              commands  List  of  functional  commands to run if no functional
              commands are specified on the command line (eg. "update foo  bar
              baz  quux").   None  of  the  short options (eg. -y, -e, -d) are
              accepted for this option.

              syslog_ident XXX not implemented yet

              syslog_facility XXX not implemented yet

              proxy URL to the proxy server that yum should use.

              proxy_username username to use for proxy

              proxy_password password for this proxy

              plugins Either ‘0’ or ‘1’. Global switch to  enable  or  disable
              yum  plugins. Default is ‘0’ (plugins disabled). See the PLUGINS
              section of the yum(8) man for more information on installing yum
              plugins.

              pluginpath  A  list  of  directories  where  yum should look for
              plugin  modules.   Default   is   ‘/usr/share/yum-plugins’   and
              ‘/usr/lib/yum-plugins’.

              pluginconfpath  A  list of directories where yum should look for
              plugin configuration files.  Default is ‘/etc/yum/pluginconf.d’.

              metadata_expire  Time (in seconds) after which the metadata will
              expire. So that if the current metadata downloaded is less  than
              this  many  seconds  old  then  yum will not update the metadata
              against the repository.  If you find that yum is not downloading
              information  on  updates  as  often  as you would like lower the
              value of this option. You can also change from  the  default  of
              using  seconds to using days, hours or minutes by appending a d,
              h or m respectively.  The default is 1.5  hours,  to  compliment
              yum-updatesd  running  once  an hour.  It’s also possible to use
              the word "never", meaning that the metadata will  never  expire.
              Note that when using a metalink file the metalink must always be
              newer  than  the  metadata  for  the  repository,  due  to   the
              validation, so this timeout also applies to the metalink file.

              mirrorlist_expire  Time  (in seconds) after which the mirrorlist
              locally cached will expire.  If the current mirrorlist  is  less
              than  this  many  seconds old then yum will not download another
              copy of  the  mirrorlist,  it  has  the  same  extra  format  as
              metadata_expire.   If  you  find that yum is not downloading the
              mirrorlists as often as you would like lower the value  of  this
              option.

              mdpolicy   You  can  select  from  different  metadata  download
              policies depending on how much data you want  to  download  with
              the   main   repository   metadata   index.  The  advantages  of
              downloading more metadata with the index is that you  can’t  get
              into  situations  where  you need to use that metadata later and
              the versions available aren’t  compatible  (or  the  user  lacks
              privileges)  and  that if the metadata is corrupt in any way yum
              will revert to the previous metadata.

              ‘instant’ - Just  download  the  new  metadata  index,  this  is
              roughly  what  yum always did, however it now does some checking
              on the index and reverts if it classifies it as bad.

              ‘group:primary’ - Download the primary metadata with the  index.
              This  contains  most of the package information and so is almost
              always required anyway. This is the default.

              ‘group:small’ - With the primary also  download  the  updateinfo
              metadata,  this  is  required for yum-security operations and it
              also used in the graphical clients.  This file also tends to  be
              significantly smaller than most others.

              ‘group:main’  -  With  the  primary  and updateinfo download the
              filelists metadata and the group metadata. The filelists data is
              required  for  operations like "yum install /bin/bash", and also
              some dependency resolutions require it. The group data  is  used
              in  some  graphical  clients  and for group operations like "yum
              grouplist Base".

              ‘group:all’  -  Download  all  metadata  listed  in  the  index,
              currently  the  only one not listed above is the other metadata,
              which contains the changelog information which is used  by  yum-
              changelog. This is what "yum makecache" uses.

              multilib_policy Can be set to ’all’ or ’best’. All means install
              all possible  arches  for  any  package  you  want  to  install.
              Therefore  yum  install foo will install foo.i386 and foo.x86_64
              on x86_64, if it is available. Best means install the best  arch
              for this platform, only.

              bugtracker_url   URL   where  bugs  should  be  filed  for  yum.
              Configurable for local versions or distro-specific  bugtrackers.

              color  Display  colorized output automatically, depending on the
              output terminal, always (using ANSI codes) or  never.   Command-
              line option: --color

              color_list_installed_older   The  colorization/highlighting  for
              packages in list/info installed which are older than the  latest
              available  package  with  the  same  name  and arch.  Default is
              ‘bold’.  Possible values are a comma separated list  containing:
              bold,   blink,   dim,   reverse,  underline,  fg:black,  fg:red,
              fg:green, fg:yellow,  fg:blue,  fg:magenta,  fg:cyan,  fg:white,
              bg:black,  bg:red,  bg:green,  bg:yellow,  bg:blue,  bg:magenta,
              bg:cyan, bg:white.

              color_list_installed_newer  The  colorization/highlighting   for
              packages  in list/info installed which are newer than the latest
              available package with the  same  name  and  arch.   Default  is
              ‘bold,yellow’.    See  color_list_installed_older  for  possible
              values.

              color_list_installed_reinstall The colorization/highlighting for
              packages in list/info installed which is the same version as the
              latest available package with the same name and  arch.   Default
              is   ‘normal’.    See  color_list_installed_older  for  possible
              values.

              color_list_installed_extra  The  colorization/highlighting   for
              packages  in  list/info installed which has no available package
              with the same  name  and  arch.   Default  is  ‘bold,red’.   See
              color_list_installed_older for possible values.

              color_list_available_upgrade  The  colorization/highlighting for
              packages in list/info available which  is  an  upgrade  for  the
              latest  installed  package with the same name and arch.  Default
              is ‘bold,blue’.   See  color_list_installed_older  for  possible
              values.

              color_list_available_downgrade The colorization/highlighting for
              packages in list/info available which is  a  downgrade  for  the
              latest  installed  package with the same name and arch.  Default
              is  ‘dim,cyan’.   See  color_list_installed_older  for  possible
              values.

              color_list_available_install  The  colorization/highlighting for
              packages in list/info available which has no  installed  package
              with  the  same  name  and  arch.   Default  is  ‘normal’.   See
              color_list_installed_older for possible values.

              color_list_available_reinstall The colorization/highlighting for
              packages in list/info available which is the same version as the
              installed package with the  same  name  and  arch.   Default  is
              ‘bold,underline,green.    See   color_list_installed_older   for
              possible values.

              color_search_match  The   colorization/highlighting   for   text
              matches     in     search.      Default    is    ‘bold’.     See
              color_list_installed_older for possible values.

              color_update_installed   The    colorization/highlighting    for
              packages  in the "updates list" which are installed. The updates
              list is what is printed when you run  "yum  update",  "yum  list
              updates",  "yum list obsoletes" and "yum check-update".  Default
              is  ‘normal’.   See  color_list_installed_older   for   possible
              values.

              color_update_local The colorization/highlighting for packages in
              the "updates list" which are  already  downloaded.  The  updates
              list  is  what  is  printed when you run "yum update", "yum list
              updates", "yum list obsoletes" and "yum check-update".   Default
              is  ‘bold’.  See color_list_installed_older for possible values.

              color_update_remote The colorization/highlighting  for  packages
              in  the  "updates list" which need to be downloaded. The updates
              list is what is printed when you run  "yum  update",  "yum  list
              updates",  "yum list obsoletes" and "yum check-update".  Default
              is  ‘normal’.   See  color_list_installed_older   for   possible
              values.

[repository] OPTIONS

       The repository section(s) take the following form:

              Example: [repositoryid]
              name=Some name for this repository
              baseurl=url://path/to/repository/

              repositoryid  Must  be  a  unique  name for each repository, one
              word.

              name A human readable string describing the repository.

              baseurl  Must  be  a  URL  to  the  directory  where   the   yum
              repository’s  ‘repodata’  directory  lives.  Can  be an http://,
              ftp:// or file:// URL. You can  specify  multiple  URLs  in  one
              baseurl statement. The best way to do this is like this:
              [repositoryid]
              name=Some name for this repository
              baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
                      url://server2/path/to/repository/
                      url://server3/path/to/repository/

              If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you
              will find yum will ignore the  earlier  ones  and  probably  act
              bizarrely. Don’t do this, you’ve been warned.

              You  can  use  HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to
              the  server  name   in   the   baseurl   line.    For   example:
              "baseurl=http://user:passwd@example.com/".

              metalink  Specifies a URL to a metalink file for the repomd.xml,
              a list of mirrors for the entire  repository  are  generated  by
              converting the mirrors for the repomd.xml file to a baseurl. The
              metalink file also contains the latest timestamp from  the  data
              in  the  repomd.xml,  the  length of the repomd.xml and checksum
              data. This data is checked  against  any  downloaded  repomd.xml
              file  and  all  of  the  information from the metalink file must
              match. This can be used instead of or with the  baseurl  option.
              Substitution  variables,  described below, can be used with this
              option. This  option  disables  the  mirrorlist  option.   As  a
              special  hack is the mirrorlist URL contains the word "metalink"
              then the value of mirrorlist is copied to metalink (if  metalink
              is not set).

              mirrorlist  Specifies  a  URL  to  a  file  containing a list of
              baseurls. This can be  used  instead  of  or  with  the  baseurl
              option.  Substitution  variables,  described  below, can be used
              with this option.  As a  special  hack  is  the  mirrorlist  URL
              contains  the  word  "metalink"  then the value of mirrorlist is
              copied to metalink (if metalink is not set).

              enabled Either ‘1’ or ‘0’. This tells yum  whether  or  not  use
              this repository.

              gpgcheck  Either  ‘1’  or  ‘0’. This tells yum whether or not it
              should perform a GPG signature check on the packages gotten from
              this repository.

              repo_gpgcheck  Either  ‘1’ or ‘0’. This tells yum whether or not
              it should perform a GPG signature check  on  the  repodata  from
              this repository.

              gpgkey  A URL pointing to the ASCII-armored GPG key file for the
              repository. This option is used if yum needs  a  public  key  to
              verify  a package and the required key hasn’t been imported into
              the RPM database. If this option is set, yum will  automatically
              import  the  key  from  the  specified URL. You will be prompted
              before the key is installed unless the assumeyes option is  set.

              Multiple  URLs  may  be specified here in the same manner as the
              baseurl option (above). If a GPG key is required  to  install  a
              package   from   a  repository,  all  keys  specified  for  that
              repository will be installed.

              exclude Same as the [main] exclude  option  but  only  for  this
              repository.    Substitution   variables,  described  below,  are
              honored here.

              includepkgs Inverse of exclude. This is a list of  packages  you
              want  to  use  from  a repository. If this option lists only one
              package then that is all yum will ever see from the  repository.
              Defaults  to  an  empty list.  Substitution variables, described
              below, are honored here.

              enablegroups Either ‘0’ or  ‘1’.  Determines  whether  yum  will
              allow  the use of package groups for this repository. Default is
              ‘1’ (package groups are allowed).

              failovermethod Either ‘roundrobin’ or ‘priority’.

              ‘roundrobin’ randomly selects a URL out of the list of  URLs  to
              start  with and proceeds through each of them as it encounters a
              failure contacting the host.

              ‘priority’ starts  from  the  first  baseurl  listed  and  reads
              through them sequentially.

              failovermethod defaults to ‘roundrobin’ if not specified.

              keepalive  Either  ‘1’  or  ‘0’.  This  tells yum whether or not
              HTTP/1.1 keepalive should be used with this repository. See  the
              global  option in the [main] section above for more information.

              timeout Overrides the timeout option from the [main] section for
              this repository.

              http_caching  Overrides  the http_caching option from the [main]
              section for this repository.

              retries Overrides the retries option from the [main] section for
              this repository.

              throttle  Overrides  the throttle option from the [main] section
              for this repository.

              bandwidth Overrides the bandwidth option from the [main] section
              for this repository.

              sslcacert Overrides the sslcacert option from the [main] section
              for this repository.

              sslverify Overrides the sslverify option from the [main] section
              for this repository.

              sslclientcert Overrides the sslclientcert option from the [main]
              section for this repository.

              sslclientkey Overrides the sslclientkey option from  the  [main]
              section for this repository.

              metadata_expire  Overrides  the  metadata_expire option from the
              [main] section for this repository.

              mirrorlist_expire Overrides the  mirrorlist_expire  option  from
              the [main] section for this repository.

              proxy  URL  to  the  proxy  server  for  this repository. Set to
              ’_none_’  to  disable  the  global  proxy   setting   for   this
              repository.  If  this  is  unset  it inherits it from the global
              setting

              proxy_username username to use for proxy.  If this is  unset  it
              inherits it from the global setting

              proxy_password  password  for  this  proxy.  If this is unset it
              inherits it from the global setting

              cost relative cost of  accessing  this  repository.  Useful  for
              weighing  one  repo’s  packages  as greater/less than any other.
              defaults to 1000

URL INCLUDE SYNTAX

       The  inclusion  of  external  configuration  files  is  supported   for
       /etc/yum/yum.conf   and   the   .repo  files  in  the  /etc/yum/repos.d
       directory. To include a URL, use a line of the following format:

       include=url://to/some/location

       The configuration  file  will  be  inserted  at  the  position  of  the
       "include=" line.  Included files may contain further include lines. Yum
       will abort with an error if an inclusion loop is detected.

VARIABLES

       There are a number of variables you can  use  to  ease  maintenance  of
       yum’s  configuration files. They are available in the values of several
       options including name, baseurl and commands.

              $releasever This will be replaced with the value of the  version
              of  the  package  listed  in  distroverpkg. This defaults to the
              version of ‘redhat-release’ package.

              $arch This will be replaced with your architecture as listed  by
              os.uname()[4] in Python.

              $basearch  This  will be replaced with your base architecture in
              yum. For example, if your $arch is i686 your $basearch  will  be
              i386.

              $YUM0-$YUM9  These  will be replaced with the value of the shell
              environment variable of the same name. If the shell  environment
              variable  does  not  exist  then the configuration file variable
              will not be replaced.

FILES

       /etc/yum/yum.conf
       /etc/yum/repos.d/
       /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/

SEE ALSO

       yum(8)