A question about RHEL repositories

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Dear members,

Please find below the list of enabled repositories in my RHEL7 workstation. May I know, is there any unwanted repositories enabled in my repolist?.

$ yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, nvidia, product-id, search-disabled-
: repos, subscription-manager
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* elrepo: mirrors.coreix.net
* epel: anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk
repo id status
!cuda enabled: 80
!elrepo enabled: 148
elrepo-extras disabled
elrepo-kernel disabled
elrepo-testing disabled
!epel/x86_64 enabled: 8,492
epel-debuginfo/x86_64 disabled
epel-source/x86_64 disabled
epel-testing/x86_64 disabled
epel-testing-debuginfo/x86_64 disabled
epel-testing-source/x86_64 disabled
!rhel-7-workstation-beta-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 2,088
!rhel-7-workstation-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 4,880
!rhel-7-workstation-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 2,086
!rhel-7-workstation-debug-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 2,996
!rhel-7-workstation-extras-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-extras-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-extras-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-fastrack-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 56
!rhel-7-workstation-fastrack-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 164
!rhel-7-workstation-fastrack-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 28
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-beta-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 189
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 4,041
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 495
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-debug-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 1,787
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-fastrack-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 18
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-fastrack-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 96
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-fastrack-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 17
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 5,634
!rhel-7-workstation-optional-source-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 1,719
!rhel-7-workstation-rh-common-beta-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-rh-common-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-rh-common-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-rh-common-debug-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 18
!rhel-7-workstation-rh-common-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 127
!rhel-7-workstation-rh-common-source-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 52
!rhel-7-workstation-rhn-tools-beta-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-rhn-tools-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-rhn-tools-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-rhn-tools-debug-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 2
!rhel-7-workstation-rhn-tools-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 76
!rhel-7-workstation-rhn-tools-source-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 45
!rhel-7-workstation-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 7,882
!rhel-7-workstation-source-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 2,740
!rhel-7-workstation-supplementary-beta-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-supplementary-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 30
!rhel-7-workstation-supplementary-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 4
!rhel-7-workstation-supplementary-debug-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-supplementary-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 71
!rhel-7-workstation-supplementary-source-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 6
!rhel-7-workstation-thirdparty-oracle-java-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-thirdparty-oracle-java-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-7-workstation-thirdparty-oracle-java-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 116
!rhel-7-workstation-thirdparty-oracle-java-source-rpms/7Workstation/x86_64 enabled: 4
!rhel-workstation-rhscl-7-beta-debug-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-workstation-rhscl-7-beta-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
!rhel-workstation-rhscl-7-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 enabled: 0
repolist: 46,187

Many thanks
Aneesh

AC
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Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
12 September 2015 3:21 PM

You have repositories for beta packages enabled. Unless you intend to test them, you really want to disable them. Also, look through other RHEL repos and disable any one you don't need.

Regarding 3rd party repos, you have ELRepo and EPEL. Both are useful and trustworthy repos, so this part is looking good.

AC Active Contributor 185 points
12 September 2015 3:38 PM

Dear Akemi Yagi,

Thanks for the reply. Other than ELRepo and EPEL, all RHEL repos was by default active once I subscribed and installed RHEL 7. May I know how to find out which RHEL repos are unwanted once? Can I disable all the RHEL repos with beta tags?

Waiting fro you valuable reply

Many thanks
Aneesh

SW Red Hat Guru 4022 points
14 September 2015 6:45 AM

Hello

I think the opposite approach is better, disable everything and then just enable the ones you are sure you need.

To disable all existing repositories:

# subscription-manager repos --disable "*"

Then open the repository file in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and enable the ones you need.

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