Local yum repo

[steve]

On Friday 17 June 2005 04:21 pm, Gene C. wrote:
> On Friday 17 June 2005 16:17, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I pretty sure this will not work.
>
> For right now, I am disabling the regular updates-released but enabling my
> local version.  If I then want to check for other available updates, I use
>    yum --enablerepo=updates-released  check-update
>
> This seems to do what I want.
>
> One question that is a puzzle is how yum (or update for that matter)
> figures the order in which access the repositories.  If I could tell it to
> first look in local and then look at the mirrorlist, that would be better
> but that does not seem possible.
> --
> Gene
Put them all in yum.conf and it should go down the "script" checking in that 
order. Disable the ones in yum.repos.d.
OR
#info yum
gives---
yum makecache
for making a "local" cache of updates available.

       -C     Tells  yum  to  run  entirely  from cache - does not download or
              update any headers unless it has to  to  perform  the  requested
              action.


       -c [config file]
              Specifies the config file location - can take http, ftp urls and
              local file paths.<<<<<<<<<just make sure yum would have access 
for the files in a different "path"..

looks somewhat possible to me--but the only part I have used much is the 
"local" cache part lately. It came in real handy when FC4t3 was frozen and I 
was playing with installing new apps and programs waiting for the final to be 
released. (ooopppss--I just let my secret weapon out--didn't I?--I was 18 
"updates" short of the final release version on "D-DAY" (+ 1 week))

 And THANKS to all who worked so hard on that development too!!!! It's very 
good.

Looks to me like a separate script for updating locally and one for Internet 
use could possibly be workable.
-- 
.....................
steve   w5set