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Temporarily Disable a Yum Repository
Jul 24th
Sometimes, you may run into problems updating Fedora via yum. What you could do is temporarily disable the offending repository, and update everything else while the errors are being fixed upstream.
- List out your enabled yum repositories.
$ yum repolist
You would get something like this:
[raja@atreides ~]$ yum repolist Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit repo id repo name status adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled: 17 chromium Chromium Test Packages enabled: 7 fedora Fedora 11 - i386 enabled: 13,289 rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free enabled: 377 rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free - Upda enabled: 210 rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree enabled: 110 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree - U enabled: 115 updates Fedora 11 - i386 - Updates enabled: 3,451 repolist: 17,576
- The names on the left are the repo ids. To disable a particular one, for example
rpmfusion-nonfree-updateswhile doing updates, run your yum like this:-# yum upgrade --disablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates
- This will help you upgrade the rest of the packages in the mean time.