Setup local repo for F14 install packages. What am I doing wrong?

Gabriel VLASIU gabriel at vlasiu.net
Thu Dec 9 07:46:52 UTC 2010


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On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Richard Shaw wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:57:28 -0600
> From: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> Subject: Setup local repo for F14 install packages. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I copied all the packages from the F14 x86_64 installation disc into a
> directory (/var/local/packages/fedora/14...) and then ran createrepo
> on it. I setup a new repo file called local.repo.
> 
> It recognizes the repo fine but I want to make sure it tries to use
> packages from it before downloading them. I tried yum-priorities but
> it seems to exclude too many packages to the point of not catching
> updates.
> 
> There are only 2,786 packages in my local repo but it's excluding 4535
> packages when updating (See below). Is it blocking the original
> install versions as well as updates of the same package name?
> 
> I guess I want package level priorities but the plugin only seems to
> work at the repo level.

Use "cost" for your local repo. Default is 1000. (man yum.conf). Choose 
something like 500:

[repo name...]
name=...
baseurl=...
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
cost=500

That's all.


Gabriel

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