"Paul Howarth" wrote in message news:1144490750.9865.26.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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? Actually, I have done that, but it just pushes the problem to other repositories, like extras. I don't have space to mirror everything, or the bandwidth to download it. What I want is a download once enviroment -- once a package gets downloaded, it sticks around for all further installs on any machine on the local network.
