Re: Adding programs

[Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadf u washington edu>]

John Haxby wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>
> > Off CD? I couldn't see that from the docs, and on starting up up2date 
> > it wants to register, and I don't especially want to do that.
> > I especially don't want to pull stuff off RHN through my modem when 
> > I've probably got a satisfactory version on CD.
> Having said that, the system-config-packages thing should work -- it has 
> a parameter to point it to a directory full of ISO images (--isodir).   
> That isn't your only choice though.   system-config-packages is a bit 
> limited though for my liking.   My preferred solution, at least the last 
> time I did it, was to mount the ISO images (using -o loop) and create a 
> yum archive.   up2date knows about yum archives but I don't recall 
> whether it preferred RHN or yum for local packages -- I installed a 
> version of yum as well.

If you've got disk space, I'd copy all the CD RPMs to your machine.
I use /usr/local/RPMS/ but whatever works. Then check out the bottom of
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and look closely at the lines:

### A local directory full of packages (a "dir" repo). For example:
#dir my-favorite-rpms /var/spool/RPMS/
#dir my-java-rpms /root/java/

The rest is left as an exercise for the reader...

(By the way, for up2date to like the local RPMs they should be GPG
signed--which Red Hat's of course are but don't dump just anything).