Stuart McGraw wrote: > Hello, > > I have a local repo that has a subset of Fedora Extra > packages in it. When I install a package with yum, I > would like it to install from the local repo rather > than a remote repo because I have a slow (sometimes > 0-b/S) internet connection. > > There is nothing about this in the docs but in the faq > it says repos are used in order of their occurance in > the[sic] yum.conf file. This does not appear to work. > I moved both my local repo config and the fed-ex repo > config into yum.conf in the desired order. I also made > the repo names sort the right way, but yum still goes > to the network. > > Am I doing something wrong? Or is this really broken? > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > man yum.conf <snip> failovermethod Either ?roundrobin? or ?priority?. ?roundrobin? randomly selects a URL out of the list of URLs to start with and proceeds through each of them as it encounters a failure contacting the host. ?priority? starts from the first baseurl listed and reads through them sequentially. failovermethod defaults to ?roundrobin? if not specified. </snip> Use failovermethod=priority in your .repo file Tim
