Yum's --disablerepo option

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Tim Largy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to list all of the packages available in Fedora Extras
> without querying any other repositories. I ran yum with the
> --disablerep option in order to exclude all of the repos except for
> fedora-extras, and here is what happened:
>
> # pwd
> /etc/yum.repos.d
> # ls
> fedora-devel.repo   fedora.repo          fedora-updates-testing.repo
> fedora-extras.repo  fedora-updates.repo
> # yum --disablerepo=fedora-devel --disablerepo=fedora
> --disablerepo=fedora-updates --disablerepo=fedora-updates-testing list
> available
> Error getting repository data for fedora-devel, repository not found
>
> When I run "yum list available" everything works; that is, I get a
> list of packages available at all of my repositories, so I don't think
> that any of my *.repo files are broken. Am I using the --disablerepo
> option as intended?

Repo name is not the filename as in 'fedora-devel.repo' - it is the
name listed inside the file as in:
[development]

So you do:
yum --disablerepo=development

etc..

Satish