Local yum repo

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:28:37PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > I think I can accomplish what I want to do (see what is available from the 
> > mirror list and install only install from my local repo) by using 
> > --enablerepo=<> or --disablerepro=<> on the yum command line.  This is a bit 
> > more manual but not much.  If the manual entry becomes error prone or 
> > tedious, some script files should simplify things.
> 
> why not just treat your local repo as your own mirror and remove the
> remote site from your .repo files?

I think that Gene is concerned that a local mirror may be not always
in a sufficiently updated state and then one should look somewhere
further.

I did not try that but I wonder if something like that would not
work in 'fedora-updates.repo' file

....
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=<url_for_a_local_mirror_here>
mirrorlist=http://....
....

A default 'failovermethod' is 'roundrobin' according to a manpage of
yum.conf.  Or this will affect too an order in which entries from a
mirrorlist are picked up or it will not work at all?

One possible workaround is to rewrite 'baseurl' list on every
yum invocation with a local mirror always on the first place and
the rest of this list "randomized" while using 'priority' for
a 'failovermethod'.  That is easy to do.

   Michal