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I'm using Fedora 15 and every time I try to install something with yum, yum tries to update the repository database.

For most people this would be great and handy, but I'm stuck behind super slow internet (well, kinda slow, something like 1 Mbps), and the update takes a minute or so. The database isn't large (a little over 2 mb for all of my repositories), but it adds up.

What is the best way to disable this automatic database update? I'm used to Ubuntu and apt where I have to manually tell apt to update the databases. I suppose I could install apt for Fedora, but I was wondering if there was a config setting somewhere that I could change.

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Passing -C to yum will tell it to only use the metadata in the current cache. Note that this will cause the operation to fail if it needs metadata that is not currently in the cache, or if the metadata from the various repositories are not in sync.

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Can that be set in a config file somewhere? Passing -C every time may get tedious. I want to tell yum when to update the metadata. – tjameson Jul 31 '11 at 22:05
Unfortunately no. You will need to create an alias for it. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jul 31 '11 at 22:57
I suppose I can live with that. Thanks! – tjameson Aug 1 '11 at 18:21
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