How to build a local yum update server??

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Jul 3 13:26:46 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 07:53:01PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> One idea would be that file:// type repositories would be preferred
> when downloading a package. Alternatively, any repository, which is
> given a high priority, would be the preferred source when downloading
> a package. So a package, which is in a "local" repository, would
> never be downloaded from an remote repository. How would this be used?
> You "yum --enablerepo=updates-released --enablerepo=updates-mirrored",
> and no update package found in updates-mirrored would ever be
> downloaded from updates-released. A bit like treating local repos
> as a read-only cache.

What if there's a newer version of the package in a lower-priority repo?

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