Upgrading using DVD iso image on HD

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:20 AM +0100 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 
wrote:

> I don't think it includes the metadata (the FC3 DVD didn't anyway).
> However, that can be fixed fairly easily: if you've loopback-mounted the
> DVD at (say) /srv/software/fc4/dvd then running "createrepo" in
> the /srv/software/fc4 directory should create a suitable set of metadata
> for using with yum.

Does it create it "out of tree"? The original yum put the headers in a 
subdirectory of the RPMS directory, making it unsuitable for retrofitting 
onto read-only filesystems.