FC6 DVD as a repository for yum/pirut ??

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at comcast.net
Fri Dec 15 03:31:23 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 02:41 +0530, Roy Francis wrote:
>> Is there any way to make yum/pirut see the FC6 DVD (mounted) as a
>> repository ? I'm using FC6. I've tried adding file://mnt/dvd/ to
>> yum.conf, but only to see yum complain that repomd.xml is missing (but
>> it's there in FC6 DVD /repodata/repomd.xml). 
> 
> I'd imagine problems if the DVD wasn't mounted when you ran YUM.  But if
> you're doing this manually, you can fix things like that as you go
> along.
> 
> Wouldn't the file path have to be deeper within the DVD than just the
> root of it?

FWIW, you might want to look at this page by Paul Howarth:

   http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages

HTH,

Marc Schwartz




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