Sometime when you have enabled many YUM Repositories like local repository, rpmforge, ATrpms for your server and it’s quite difficult to manage packages where you want that the package which you want to install too be searched on Local Repository first, then to CentOS Base, update and if it doens’t find the package here it will go for any other Third Party Repositories.



Milind Koyande is the Senior Research Engineer and his job is to work with new technologies, specially Cloud Computing / Virtualization Technology. His past projects include Government Sector initiatives, Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions. Follow him on 



