[Spacewalk-list] FW: Disable downloading stock repos in CentOS

[Jérôme Meyer]

Dear Paul,

Do you have found a solution to your repo?
From my side I’ve moved all my repos to an old directory but spacewalk will be re-create them.
Before creating a crontab job to removing of these files automatically, I wanted to know if another solution exists.

Best regards,
Jérôme

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of William H. ten Bensel
Sent: Samstag, 23. Februar 2019 00:02
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Disable downloading stock repos in CentOS

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



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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/orrm -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



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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,

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