yum question

[Suvayu Ali]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>>> In instances when access to the net is not available,
>>> but the distro DVD is available.
>>> How can one get yum to resolve dependencies automagically
>>> from the Packages directory of the mounted DVD?
>>>
>> goto /etc/yum.repos.d/  and create a repo file. You can use another file
>> like fedora.repo as your template. change the repo location to the mount
>> point for the DVD. Something like file:///path/to/DVD/. Name your repo
>> with something like localrepo. Then do,
>>
>> $ yum --disablerepo=fedora,updates install <package>
>>
>> This should do it. :)
>>
>> PS: don't forget to put enabled=1 in the new repo file you create.
>>
> I wounder if you could just copy the medio.repo file from the DVD.
> 
> Mike
> 

I checked the contents of that file after you mentioned it.

> [InstallMedia]
> name=Fedora 11
> mediaid=1243981097.897160
> metadata_expire=-1
> gpgcheck=0
> cost=500

Can't make heads or tails of this. Looks like a few lines like 
"baseurl=" are missing.

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Suvayu

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