A few ideas for FC7+
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Oct 23 14:41:53 UTC 2006
Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 15:30 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:05:17AM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> > Secondly, the current setup of Pirut is that it downloads things from
>> > the network whenever you go to install something. Is there work being
>> > done to be able to use the installer DVDs/CDs as optional repositories
>> > for this? (That way, a user whose Internet connection is slow or
>> > non-functional would be able to install packages from the discs, rather
>> > than the net.
>>
>> The DVDs and CDs include repodata directories, so they're full yum
>> repositories themselves. You sure could add entries to
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/ pointing at them.
>
> Apparently not, it pukes something about that it doesn't know
> "media://..." URLs.
Then use file://media/... URLs.
-- Rex
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