[Spacewalk-list] Disable downloading stock repos in CentOS

[William H. ten Bensel]

There is another option mentioned in the archive, about updating 
/etc/yum.conf with a new reposdir=.  This avoids updating/creating the 
repositories when the CentOS release rpm is updated with the next kernel 
release.   Oracle and Redhat do not include the repository information in 
the primary release rpm, but provide optional rpms or methods to install 
the repositories.  By separating the functionality of the rpm, this avoids 
these issues.  I wish CentOS would follow the same process as well.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2018-February/msg00033.html

# rpm -ql centos-release-7-5.1804.5.el7.centos.x86_64 |grep repo

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-CR.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Sources.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-fasttrack.repo

# rpm -ql oraclelinux-release-7.5-1.0.5.el7.x86_64 |grep repo
#

- Thanks and good luck



From:   "P.Cookson at bham.ac.uk" <P.Cookson at bham.ac.uk>
To:     "spacewalk-list at redhat.com" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Date:   02/22/2019 07:39 AM
Subject:        Re: [Spacewalk-list] Disable downloading stock repos in 
CentOS
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Hi Paul
 
There are a few options to disable existing repo’s really:
 
1.       Move existing related repo files to a different location (like 
you’ve described).
 
mkdir /root/Original_Repos
mv /etc/yum.repos.d/* /root/Original_Repos/
yum clean all and/or rm -rf /var/cache/yum
 
2.       Temporarily disable during update.
 
yum --disablerepo=<Repo Name> update
 
3.       Permanently disable.
 
Change the value of “enabled=” from 1 to 0 in /etc/yum.repos.d/<Repo Name>
 
Regards
Phil
 
 
 
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
<spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of pdeveau at uottawa.ca
Sent: 22 February 2019 12:52
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Disable downloading stock repos in CentOS
 
Hello,
 
I would like to disable the downloading of the stock repos like 
Centos-Base.repo and the rest They get in the way when I perform upgrades 
(unless I'm doing something wrong?) I usually move the repos to a 
different directory so that yum does not see them.
 
Thank you,

-- 
Paul Deveau
Analyste de systèmes principal|Senior Systems Analyst
Technologies de l’information|Information Technology
Université d’Ottawa|University of Ottawa
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