Dear Experts,
Please confirm me one thing.
If i want to download any package using yum , which one method should be appropriate ?
e.g oracleasm*
>> option 1
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/oracleasm.repo
[oracleasm] name=Oracle ASMLib Kernel Drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleASM/RHEL5/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
# yum install oracleasm-`uname -r`
>> option 2
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo
# yum install oracleasm-`uname -r`
1) Which one option i should follow always ?
2) Can i delete replo files always after installation process ?
# pwd
/etc/yum.repos.d
[root@DGPRIM yum.repos.d]# ls -l
total 108
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10240 Aug 21 04:14 junk.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4886 May 5 01:04 public-yum-el5.repo.9
.
Simply my question is , do i need to create repo files always when i use yum ?
Thanks