Local yum repo

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:08 -0400, Gene C. wrote:
> I have a number of systems I want to be able to update and would prefer to 
> download updates across the Internet only once.  Therefore, I would like to 
> create a local repo.  OK, I know how to create the local repo and have done 
> that.  There problem is that I want to keep the regular repo mirror lists 
> also but have yum pull the updated packages from one of the mirror lists 
> sites ONLY IF that package is not available on the local site.
> 
> Just adding /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-local-updates.repo does not do it since 
> the updates are still pulled first from the release-updates mirror sites.
> 
> My /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-local-updates.repo is:
> 
> [local-updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Local Released Updates
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> baseurl=http://amber.home/redhat/fc4/Updates/$basearch/
> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever.us.east
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> 
> Suggestions?

that doesn't and won't work. Repos are not scored higher vis-a-vis each
other.

if you want to setup a local mirror repo, then do so. Don't straddle the
fence b/t the two.

-sv