[CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

[John Broome]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 14:11, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've got automirror working on my CentOS 5.x machines.  I can't say
>> I'm a real expert with it, but if you post your symptoms maybe I can
>> help you troubleshoot it.
>>
>>
> Thanks but I've already been chatting with the author who is stumped at
> this point - so I'm just going to give up.
>
> He said he has found cases where automirror does not work and so he uses
> polipo in those cases - so that is where I am off to now :-0
>
> I have it working but there is this matter of yum choosing different
> mirrors ...

Disable the mirrorlist line in the .repo file and point it at one
specific mirror?