Hi, Even after making enabled=0 in CentOS-Base.repo, i'm still unable to stop installation from the CentOS-Base.repo. Only if i rename CentOS-Base.repo to something else i'm able to stop installing from CentOS-Base.repo. How can I solve this problem? Please help.

Basheer is there more than one .repo file within the directory? Can you show us your .repo configuration file details?

did you reboot ?
if not the old setting is still in ram

Can you back that "advice" up?
- Where in the CentOS documentation does it say we need to reboot a server after changing YUM repo settings?
- Does actually running a 'strace -eopen' show it's not loading /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files?



What he means is run

Thanx for the replies guys.
when I run yum repolist enabled i get the following
[root@localhost ~]# yum repolist enabled
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.excellmedia.net
* extras: centos.excellmedia.net
* updates: centos.excellmedia.net
repo id repo name status
!base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 8,465
!extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 104
!localrepo local repo conataining all the packages from the dvd 3,538
!updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 1,723
repolist: 13,830
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# cat CentOS-Base.repo
# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras&infra=$infra
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

look at the CentOS-Base.repo. It is enabled=0, but it still installs from the base repo.
I wanted to install from the localrepo.repo where enabled=1.

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# cat localrepo.repo
[localrepo]
name=local repo conataining all the packages from the dvd
baseurl=file:///var/localrepo
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

thanx in advance

There are 4 different repos in that CentOS-Base.repo file, and the only one that is disabled is "centosplus".

thanx a lot rknichols and all the others, its working fine now. I added enabled=0 to all therepos in CentOS-Base.