"Kam Leo" wrote: > On 4/8/06, Stuart <smcg2297@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "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. > > > > There have been discussions regarding this issue for every release. > The answer is to create your own repo. Check the list archives or the > Fedora FAQ for details. I did that. The problem (detailed in another post in this thread) is that yum tries to download rpms from the remote repos despite their presence in the local repo. I have spent the last two days searching the archives unsuccessfully. Do you know why that might be happening or how to stop it from happening?
