Creating a local RPM repository

[Bill Davidsen]

stan wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:23 -0500
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> 
>> psmith wrote:
>>> On 07/11/09 13:30, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>> There is an application called createrepo available which will
>>>>> create the repo based on then RPMs in a directory. This should be
>>>>> a good place to start. I've used it before with any problems.
>>>>>      
>>>> But couldn't yum just have an option to look for RPMs on the local 
>>>> network?
>>>> Ie look first in local cache, then on LAN, then at remote repo.
>>>> I would have thought that would be easy to implement.
>>>>
>>>>    
>>> there is, just put all of the repo's you want to use in 
>>> /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo and give each one the correct 
>>> priority that makes them get chosen in the order you want :)
>>>
>> If you had intended to help, you should have noted that he needs 
>> yum-plugin-priorities (or did the last time I did it).
>>
> 
> Another way to do this is to set the cost for each repository.  The
> default cost is 1000 so if you set it less than that, it will be used
> before anything else.  If  you set it more than that it will be used
> after everything else.  e.g. put cost=500 in the local repository file
> in /etc/yum.repos.d or description in /etc/yum.conf to use local files
> first.
> See   man yum.conf  though it doesn't say much more than I've said here.
> 
Thanks, that's clearly the better method, since a check for "priority" in the 
man page only shows the failover use. I wouldn't have known about priority is my 
friend google didn't mention it back when.

It looks as if in any reasonable use 'cost' and 'priority' provide the same 
functionality. Features from the Department of Redundancy Department.

In any case I will switch to 'cost' myself, for FC12, I see no reason to use a 
plugin when a standard feature will serve.

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