preupgrade with local repo

[Bill Davidsen]

idwsh6b02 at sneakemail.com wrote:
> I tried to use preupgrade with a modified releases.txt that points to a local repository. But preupgrade is still going to the mirrors over the internet. Does anyone have an example releases.txt that demonstrates how to do preupgrade from a completely local yum repository.
> 
> Here was my releases.txt that I tried:
> 
> [Fedora 11 (Leonidas)]
> stable=True
> preupgrade-ok=True
> version=11
> baseurl=file:///repo/fedora/releases/11/Everything/$basearch/os/
> #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=$basearch
> mirrorlist=
> #installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/$basearch/os
> installmirrorlist=
> installurl=file:///repo/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/$basearch/os/
> 
> 
> I also tried --disablerepos='*' --enablerepos='mylocal*'
> (where mylocal* repos are repos that I have added in /etc/yum.repos.d that point to my local copy of the repository).  That didn't help either.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but customizing preupgrade like this is not very well documented that I could see.  Any pointers are welcome.
> 
There are things in yum like localinstall and localupdate, but I think the 
solution lies in using the "cost" parameter for your local repo, set it to about 
500 and it should be used before any other.

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