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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt index 19f8c451f..3c1d304c1 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ All metadata processing can be disabled as well:: [packages] metadata=0 +This setting implies disabling the resolver. + Blacklisting faulty dependencies -------------------------------- @@ -431,10 +433,11 @@ Configuring the Yum Helper Due to poor memory management by the Yum API, the long-lived bcfg2-server process uses an external short-lived helper, ``bcfg2-yum-helper``, to do the actual Yum API calls for native yum -library support. By default, Bcfg2 looks for this helper at -``/usr/sbin/bcfg2-yum-helper``. If you have installed the helper -elsewhere, you will need to configure that location with the -``helper`` option in the ``[yum]`` section, e.g.:: +library support. By default, Bcfg2 looks for this helper in +``$PATH``, or, failing that, at ``/usr/sbin/bcfg2-yum-helper``. If +you have installed the helper elsewhere, you will need to configure +that location with the ``helper`` option in the ``[yum]`` section, +e.g.:: [yum] use_yum_libraries = 1 @@ -650,10 +653,11 @@ It understands the following directives: * ``resolver``: Enable dependency resolution. Default is ``1`` (true). For historical reasons, this also accepts "enabled" and "disabled". -* ``metadata``: Enable metadata processing. Default is ``1`` - (true). For historical reasons, this also accepts "enabled" and - "disabled". -* ``yum_config``: The path at which to generate Yum configs. No +* ``metadata``: Enable metadata processing. Default is ``1`` + (true). If ``metadata`` is disabled, it's implied that ``resolver`` + is also disabled. For historical reasons, this also accepts + "enabled" and "disabled". +* ``yum_config``: The path at which to generate Yum configs. No default. * ``apt_config``: The path at which to generate APT configs. No default. |