Configuring to Fedora 17 Local Mirror of NITC

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This will help you configure your system to download packages from the NITC fosscell Fedora mirror.

Log in as root and use the following command to create a file inside /etc/yum.repos.d:

touch /etc/yum.repos.d/fosscellfedora

Copy and paste the following code into the created file using your favourite editor.

## Nitc fosscell fedora local mirror for fedora 17 and 18 
[NITCFedora-updates]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://fosscell.nitc.ac.in/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch 


[NITCFedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://fosscell.nitc.ac.in/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

Update packages.

sudo yum install update

Reference: Fedora docs

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