make reposync ignore /etc/yum.conf?

Question

Is there a way to make reposync ignore /etc/yum.conf ?

When i use reposync --config=/my/path/to/alternative/inputrepo.conf it's still picking up repositories for consideration inside /etc/yum.repos.d

My alternative/inputrepo.conf just looks like:

[varnish]
name=varnish
baseurl=http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el6/x86_64/

...but reposync still picks up the google-chome repo, which is only in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and complains about varnish being defined twice.

This is a problem for me because some of the mirrors i want to sync are also present on the system in /etc/yum.repos.d/, but with different baseurls.

Answer 1

In your alternate yum.conf you need to set reposdir to something else so it won't look in /etc/yum.repos.d.

I put my repo definitions for reposync in /etc/reposync.repos.d so the line to add to the yum.conf you're using for reposync would look like this:

reposdir=/etc/reposync.repos.d

Answer 2

Try:

% reposync -p [destdir] --repoid=varnish

This option will sync repo varnish repo to your local repo to whatever directory you provide.

% reposync -p [destdir] -n --repoid=varnish

Will sync only the newest files for subsequent syncs.

Answer 3

Check out yum --disablerepo="*" ... and similar flags. Read the yum manpage.