On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:28:37PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > I think I can accomplish what I want to do (see what is available from the > > mirror list and install only install from my local repo) by using > > --enablerepo=<> or --disablerepro=<> on the yum command line. This is a bit > > more manual but not much. If the manual entry becomes error prone or > > tedious, some script files should simplify things. > > why not just treat your local repo as your own mirror and remove the > remote site from your .repo files? I think that Gene is concerned that a local mirror may be not always in a sufficiently updated state and then one should look somewhere further. I did not try that but I wonder if something like that would not work in 'fedora-updates.repo' file .... failovermethod=priority baseurl=<url_for_a_local_mirror_here> mirrorlist=http://.... .... A default 'failovermethod' is 'roundrobin' according to a manpage of yum.conf. Or this will affect too an order in which entries from a mirrorlist are picked up or it will not work at all? One possible workaround is to rewrite 'baseurl' list on every yum invocation with a local mirror always on the first place and the rest of this list "randomized" while using 'priority' for a 'failovermethod'. That is easy to do. Michal