[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

Wed Jul 28 14:36:41 UTC 2010
Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:52:55AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
>> > [c5-local]
>> > name=CentOS-$releasever - Media
>> > baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/
>> > gpgcheck=1
>> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>> > protect=1
>> > priority=1
>> > enabled=1
>> >
>> > [update-local]
>> > name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local
>> > baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/
>> > gpgcheck=1
>> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>> > protect=1
>> > priority=1
>> > enabled=1
>> >
>> > And, of course, disable the default repositories.
>
>> Why should I disable the default repositories, though?
>
> If you don't then you'll have the default internet based repositories _and_
> your local mirror both providing packages at the same time, and you'll gain
> no benefit for having the local mirror.
>
> --
>
> rgds
> Stephen
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Oh, right, sure. Sorry, I wasn't thinking.

I thought you were telling me not to use the content of those
repositories - and I couldn't figure out why.

Thanks again.

Boris.