On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 08:57 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i thought of that and was fairly sure it would work, but that > approach has two issues: > > 1) i wasn't *absolutely* sure that yum doesn't squirrel away any > accompanying meta-info as it's populating /var/cache/yum so i was a > little nervous about just dumping a pile of extra rpms in there which > yum itself didn't stash there. put the files in /var/cache/yum/$repoid/packages yum won't care. > > 2) on some systems, /var might be a separate filesystem and just isn't > capable of handling 1 or 2 Gig of packages tossed into it. (yes, > yes, symlinks, i know. :-) symlinks, yes. > > hence wanting to specify an additional local repository to be used > in conjunction with the standard online one. i'm still a little > nervous about the earlier suggestion of: > If you want to setup a local repo, go right ahead. Then add that path as another repo in your yum configs. Then set the cost for that repo to something lower than 1000 (man yum.conf /cost) -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
