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How to Configure Yum to Use Our Local Fedora Core or CentOS Repositories

If you have a Fedora 4, Fedora 6, Fedora 7 or CentOS 4 Dedicated or Virtual Dedicated server with us, you can point your yum mirror lists at our servers. We have local repositories, giving you high speed package management.

NOTE: If you provisioned or reprovisioned your server after 11 July 2007, this configuration was done for you. There is no need to make any change.

Configuring CentOS 4

1. SSH to your server.
2. Type su - and press Enter to gain root access.
3. Use your text editor of choice (vi, nano, etc.) to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

• Under the [base] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [update] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-updates.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [addons] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-addons.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [update] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-updates.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [extras] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-extras.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [centosplus] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-centosplus.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [contrib] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-updates.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [update] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-contrib.$basearch

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

Configuring Fedora 4 or Fedora 6

1. SSH to your server.
2. Type su - and press Enter to gain root access.
3. Use your text editor of choice (vi, nano, etc.) to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo Fedora Core 4; or /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo Fedora Core 6

• Under the [base] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [updates-released] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

• Under the [extras] section, change the mirrorlist line to:

  mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever

  And add a new line, if not already there:

  failovermethod=priority

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