a feature request: offline pkg installation from media

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 19 19:49:19 UTC 2008



On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 20:38 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
>> Here my mindflashes:
>>
>> 1.) It may be nice to have a frontend for createrepo to create a
>> repository on a media
>> for offline installation/updates.
>
> by frontend, do you mean graphical tool?  createrepo is a frontend to
> itself, and has the ability to create repodata on media.  It's how we
> create the repodata on CDs/DVDs.

If you want to see how to make a repo it's a pretty simple process and 
documented here:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RepoCreate


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