<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:14:08 -0700 > From: fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com > To: fedora-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: yum question > > Markus Kesaromous wrote: > > In instances when access to the net is not available, > > but the distro DVD is available. > > How can one get yum to resolve dependencies automagically > > from the Packages directory of the mounted DVD? > > > > goto /etc/yum.repos.d/ and create a repo file. You can use another file > like fedora.repo as your template. change the repo location to the mount > point for the DVD. Something like file:///path/to/DVD/. Name your repo > with something like localrepo. Then do, > > $ yum --disablerepo=fedora,updates install <package> > > This should do it. :) > > PS: don't forget to put enabled=1 in the new repo file you create. > > -- > Suvayu Thank you Suvayu. This is what I created: /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo It contains: [local] name=Fedora 11 - i386 - Local baseurl=file:///media/dvd/Packages enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///media/dvd/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-11-primary and it works great. Thanks for the tip! Cheers, MK > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines <hr />Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body> </html>