Can't install mplayer - dependency problems
David Timms
dtimms at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 16 11:20:15 UTC 2007
Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:43:16 -0400
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
>
>> These packages aren't on the Fedora 7 DVD. Since my local fedora.repo
>> is built from that DVD, the files can't obviously be found. Why aren't
>> those packages on the DVD?
>
> The Fedora repo is larger than what you can fit onto a DVD. Therefore, the DVD
> contains only a subset of the actual available rpm's that are in the Fedora
> repo.
>
> I suppose you could go to one of the actual repo mirrors and download
> everything there onto your local fileserver, but I don't know if you would gain
> much overall due to the amount of downloading that you would have to do. But
> that is an option.
There is also some tools to help reposync and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/fedora-mirror {might not be
useful for F7}.
Because I don't want to download Everything, I made a script that:
- rsyncs from my nearest {own ISP's} fedora/Everything repodata to
subfolder of the /var/cache/yum/fedora/repodata folder
- makes a link called /var/cache/yum/fedora/Fedora pointing to the
/var/cache/yum/fedora/packages folder.
- yum -y update this internal mirror.
- vsftpd anon share the yum folder.
Any package that I put on other internal machines, I also install on the
mirror, so that the update will pull all packages only that my machines
actually use. When I try something new out, I install it first on the
mirror - {yum.conf keepcache=1}, which makes it available for the other
machines to download.
DaveT.
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