Managing fedora installations behind firewall

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Mar 23 13:51:14 UTC 2011


Richard Shaw wrote:

> I setup a "local" repo on my desktop computer that I copied all of the
> DVD provided packages (and some others I've build myself) to. I don't
> worry about making the other computers on my home network ONLY use my
> local repo so I just add a repo config file pointing to my packages
> (over NFS) and give it a lower "cost" which means if a package is
> available on both my local repo and in the fedora repos then it will
> install from my local repo.

This sounds interesting.
How exactly do you do it?
Is it all in /etc/yum.conf ?
If so, could we see yours, please.

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