Can yum download to a pen-drive?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 24 19:07:25 UTC 2008


On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:36, Will Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:37 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > Gawd knows. I'm no yum expert (sorry if I mislead you :-).
> > >
> > :-)
> > :
> > > I'd suggest
> > > backing out the edit to yum.conf and just creating a repo file
> > > in /etc/yum.repos.d like I did. See what happens.
> >
> > Exactly the same.  'Options Error: Error parsing '10': invalid boolean
> > value'.
> >
> > Very discouraging.
>
> Sounds like you mistyped a 'option=1' as 'option=10' somewhere in your
> yum config. Boolean values need to be 1 or 0; if you made a typo and put
> a '10' in there that's what you'd get.
>
> Try: grep -rs '=10' /etc/yum.*
> and see if you find such a typo.
>
Duh!  No need for that.  As soon as you said it I realised there could only be 
one place.  'Enabled=10'.

Now I have a couple of unresolved dependencies.  I have yum-utils installed.  
Isn't that supposed to provide skip-broken?  It doesn't seem to be working.

Anne




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