glibc and other packages

[Samad, Alex]

Thank you very much, I was just about to hand make a repo!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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> Behalf Of Michal Jaegermann
> Sent: Friday, 8 July 2005 1:25 AM
> To: Linux on Alpha processors
> Subject: Re: glibc and other packages
> 
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:59:16PM +1000, Samad, Alex wrote:
> >
> > In the process of downloading packages, but it hard to find out
which
> > one you need to satisfy a dependency...
> 
> Once you downloaded packages, and "manual" dependency resolution
> gives you troubles, you may run 'createrepo' on a directory with
> these packages thus creating your own yum repository with current
> headers.  Now point yum in your configuration to this directory,
> with a URL in a form 'baseurl=file://<path_of_your_repo>' (this
> will end with with _three_ slashes) and you are ready to roll.
> 
> You can also add a URL of the original repository to your list, in
> case something you did not download is still needed, but then use
> 'failovermethod=priority'.  All of that is described in yum
> documentation.
> 
>    Michal
> 
> p.s.  Older versions of yum were using 'yum-arch' instead of
> 'createrepo'.  This creates repository metadata in a different format.
> 
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