[CentOS] local yum mirrors and yum.conf.d

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On 7/20/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>>  if I have a local centos yum mirror, whats the best way of
>>  adjusting the yum.repos.d/*.repo files to use this?  If I simply
>>  edit CentOS-Base.repo there stands a chance that a yum update
>>  could conflict with my changes.
>>
>>  am I better off creating a 'new' .repo and setting the stock one
>>  to 'enable=0' ?
>
> In my case, I change the baseurl= line to my local yum repo and 
> comment out the mirrorlist= line to force getting files locally 
> only.

That's what we do as well.

Locally built packages, on the other hand, are stored in a separate 
local repo; those do get their own .repo file.

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