Try to do yum --disablerepo=* localinstall and see if that helps If it does then you ahve to look in each *.repo file and disable them all in turn. Steve ________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:30 PM To: scientific-linux-users <[log in to unmask]> Subject: disabling the mirror list I tried to do a yum localinstall somename.rpm and yum went out looking for mirrors. I have a machine behind a nat box that restricts outbound access so it is timing out trying to reach https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ftp.scientificlinux.org&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=gPxUF7VEZvngH42FWi_n2Oud9LoYvWcrlEyfWEZv4BI&s=U4w5jEkK86lgA8jZYPg5ym6c03DCPEsaGyPstP1aQqc&e= . Why does it try accessing various mirrors when I do a local install? We have a local mirror here at ANL and I want yum to use our local mirror and not wander around the net trying to reach various mirrors. To this end, I've put the baseurl in sl6x.repo to point at our local mirror. But it still goes out to look for mirrors. What gives? Tried looking at ym.conf parameters but none jumps out at me that might possibly disable this behaviour. Would appreciate some advice. Thanks.
