On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:58 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote: > i have a fc5 machine with a very slow modem internet > connection, so I set up a local yum repository holding > most of the core rpms. With the other network repo's > disabled, I can install from it fine. > > But when the network repos are enabled, and an install > has core dependencies, yum gets them all from the > network repo even though many are available locally. > > Is there some way to specify a repo "preference" so > that the local repos will be used to satisfy dependencies > before going to remote repos? Afraid not, unless you disable the core repo itself. Why not just go the whole way and have your local repo contain *all* of the core packages, then you can just disable the core repo permanently. Do you still have the FC5 ISO images on your hard drive? Paul.
