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Pointing yum to YDL.net

Introduction

Use the following file contents in each file to configure YDL.net as your yum server. To do this,
you need to edit 3 files in /etc/yum.repos.d (you'll need to be root).The files are yellowdog-base.repo,
yellowdog-extras.repo and yellowdog-updates.repo.

Below is what each of these files should contain, replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with
your respective YDL.net enhanced username and password.

yellowdog-base.repo:

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Base
baseurl=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.ydl.net/enhanced/yum/6.0/base/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd60-base-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

yellowdog-extras.repo:

[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Extras
baseurl=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.ydl.net/enhanced/yum/6.0/extras/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd60-extras-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

yellowdog-updates.repo:

[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 Updates
baseurl=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.ydl.net/enhanced/yum/6.0/updates/
#mirrorlist=http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/yd60-updates-mlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY