[nzlug] Using yum from local repos

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Mon, 20-Nov-2006 at 10:38AM +1300 (give or take), Morgan Read wrote:

|> Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> > I'm trying to add to the installation of FC6 from the rpms I copied
|> > from the CDs to hard disk.  Following some advice I found on a Redhat
|> > site (can't find it now), I modified /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
|> > so that the baseurl points to that directory instead of
|> > fedoraproject.org/blah/de/blah....
|> 

|> Any reason not to use the rpms directly from the CD's?  The install

There's 6 of them (CD's) and it would get complicated if one of the
dependencies is on a different CD from the one in the drive.

I want yum to sort out the dependencies, so I'd like to get it
organised "properly".


|> CD/DVD's are now more or less simply yum repos, so there's no need
|> to do any additional repo setup.  This is what I've got in
|> /etc/yum.conf (I keep all my customisations in


|> /etc/yum.conf and then just comment out corresponding entries in /etc/yum.repos.d/):
|> [install-dvd]
|> name=Local Fedora Install DVD
|> baseurl=file:///media/disk/
|> gpgkey=file:///media/disk/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///media/disk/RPM-GPG-KEY
|> gpgcheck=1
|> enabled=0
|> 
|> If it's enabled by default and the cd/dvd isn't mounted it just fails over and
|> continues with the other repos as configured - though yumex seems to get stuck
|> on this.
|> 
|> To create a repo from any directory run createrepo on that directory.  So, for
|> instance, I have a local repo at /usr/local/repo/ and from that directory I run
|> "# createrepo -p ." which creates a repodata directory in that directory - it


createrepo is what I needed to know about.  Thanks for that.  There's
rather a lot I wanted to install, so yum should now work as it's designed.


|> doesn't matter if the rpms are in sub-directories.  The corresponding entry in
|> my /etc/yum.conf:
|> [local]
|> name=Local Packages
|> baseurl=file:///usr/local/repo/
|> gpgcheck=0
|> enabled=0
|> 
|> HTH,


Yes, that's very helpful.


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