yum install from CD

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jul 4 15:32:11 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:52 +0100, Albert Graham wrote:
> If you have the DVD, You can do it, simply change the 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo - baseurl=file:///mountpoint (or ISO
> mount point) stuff.
> This is really only useful after a new install to install groups that 
> you skipped during the installation.
> 
> Once you've done an update via Internet however the above most likely 
> will not work so well because of all the dependences changes.

I wouldn't have thought it'd be a problem, even then.  The "core" side
of things don't change, it's the update, extras, and testing repos that
do.  The disc should be the same as the core repo on the internet.

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