yum vs system-config-package

[Wong Kwok-hon]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:40:04 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:16 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:19:37 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > > Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:20:32 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > > >>On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 23:12 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> > > >>>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:38:29 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > > >>>>Add/Remove packages (system-config-packages) gets confused once you've
> > > >>>>updated packages to errata versions (e.g. by doing "yum update"). You're
> > > >>>>better off just sticking with yum.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Hello!
> > > >>>
> > > >>>That means yum and system-config-packages have a compatible problem ?
> > > >>>What should I do if I want to install packages ? User Yum or
> > > >>>system-config-packages ?
> > > >>
> > > >>I would just use yum if I was you.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But why not make them sync. together?
> > >
> > > That would the thing to do but at the moment there is a problem with
> > > system-config-packages, which is why I suggest sticking to yum for the
> > > time being.
> > >
> > > In FC4 there may well be a yum-based tool that completely replaces
> > > system-config-packages anyway.
> > >
> > > Paul.
> >
> > Thats a good idea but how to install the package from CD ?
> 
> There are a variety of ways of doing this. The simplest is simply to
> mount the CD and manually use "rpm" to install the desired package. You
> may have to install dependency packages first though, as rpm does not
> install dependencies for you.
> 
> If you've got lots of disk space, the easiest thing to do is to create
> your own yum repository and edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo,
> commenting out the line:
> 
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-
> $releasever
> 
> and adding a line:
> 
> baseurl=file:///home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-$releasever
> 
> You can create this repo by doing the following:
> 
> # mkdir -p /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3
> (insert 1st FC3 CD)
> # mount /media/cdrom
> # cp /media/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/*.rpm /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3
> # umount /media/cdrom
> (repeat previous 3 steps for each of the remaining FC3 CDs)
> # cd /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3
> # rpm -Uvh createrepo*
> # createrepo .
> 
> You'll need at least 2GB free space in /home to do this.
> 
> You'll then be able to use yum to install packages from your local repo
> without ever needing to mount your CDs.
> 
> Paul.

Thanks Paul and I will try...

Wong Kwok Hon