"Kam Leo" <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f84880b00604082204l4591f3e6s7bdb9fd5e8563639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On 4/8/06, Stuart <smcg2297@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Kam Leo" wrote: > > > On 4/8/06, Stuart <smcg2297@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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? > > The problem is with repos not sanctioned by Fedora Core. You get > similar packages with different suffixes. Yum is not able to > differentiate. In this instance you have to pick your repos wisely. In my case the local repo contains only a small subset of packages from the FC Extras repo, so the packages should be identical and officially sanctioned. > You can also do as I did for FC4, i.e. use Smart Package Manager. Give > the Fedora Core and/or Extras higher priority than the auxiliary repos > and your problem should be minimized. That looks interesting, and I'll look into it more. Thanks! I used FC4 but FC5 is the first time I've used yum. After all the good things I heard about it, I've got to say I'm a little disappointed. It may be great for those with a fast internet connection but it seems like the designers totally blew off the people with slow or no internet connections.
