Yuming/Updating via ISO's

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Mar 27 13:38:24 UTC 2006


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>> I'd certainly be interested to hear the simplest way to do this,
>>> eg I'd like to run "yum groupinstall" from the CDs
>>> from a working FC5 system.
>> I going to try to update my "Yum Repo from Images" HOWTO to include
>> using CD ISO images for those people that don't have the DVD ISO. As I
>> don't have the CD ISOs myself though, there's a bit of information I
>> need: where is the comps.xml file? On the DVD ISO it can be found in the
>> "repodata" directory and has the following MD5SUM (i386):
>>
>> 3c64b01ab4602f6a07dc47e26e96326f  comps.xml
>>
>> Is that on CD1 in the same place? Is it the same file?
> 
> There is certainly a file comps.xml there, and it has the same md5sum:
> 
>         [tim at elizabeth disk]$ ls repodata/
>         comps.xml  filelists.xml.gz  other.xml.gz  primary.xml.gz  repomd.xml
>                 TRANS.TBL
>         [tim at elizabeth disk]$ cd repodata/
>         [tim at elizabeth repodata]$ md5sum comps.xml
>         3c64b01ab4602f6a07dc47e26e96326f  comps.xml

Thanks; could you give my HOWTO a try:

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

Cheers, Paul.




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