safely remove or disable YUM Repository

Quick guide, howto remove and disable YUM repo (repository). Yum command itself does not contain any way to remove the repository. YUM repo files is located in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

I use kde.repo file with following content as example on this guide:

[kde]
name=kde
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/mirrors-stable
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1

Remove YUM Repo (Repository) Permanently

Before moving repository permanently is a good idea to check that is the repository installed using rpm package. As many repos usually are, like RPM-Fusion, Livna, etc.

Search Repository RPM-package with following command:

# rpm -qa |grep -i repo-name

For example:

# rpm -qa |grep -i rpmfusion

rpmfusion-nonfree-release-13-2.noarch
rpmfusion-free-release-13-2.noarch

If RPM-package found then simply remove whole RPM-package with following command:

# rpm -e some-repository-rpm-package

If RPM-package not found then simply remove repo file with following command:

# rm /etc/yum.repos.d/repo-file.repo

Disable YUM Repo (Repository)

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/wandisco-svn.repo

enabled=0

Enable disabled repo quickly with YUM:

# yum --enablerepo=some-disabled-repository install some-package

Disable YUM Repo (Repository) using YUM:

# yum --disablerepo=some-repository install some-package

Reference:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/yum-remove-repo-repository-yum-disable-repo-repository/