yum and cdrom

[Fred Grant]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Fred Grant wrote:
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>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>> Fred Grant wrote:
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>>>> I'd like to re-install a desktop (xfce). I have all the files on my 
>>>> cd-rom to do the install, including satisfying dependencies. I 
>>>> think it would be easiest by using yum but I can't seem to set yum 
>>>> (or /etc/yum.conf) to look at the cd-rom or yum says it can't find 
>>>> any headers. Have any of you got some pointers? Can this be done?
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>>> If the CD is an image of a yum repository, yes, it can be done. Yum
>>> wants a specific directory layout. If your CD doesn't have that layout,
>>> yum won't work.
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>> I see that yum needs a headers file and a header.info file. If I had 
>> a CD that has only rpms on it, is it possible to create these other 
>> files with scripts or from the command line? The headers file, for 
>> example, seems to just list the names of the rpms. The headers.info 
>> file has some other stuff on it that I don't pretend to understand.
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> "headers" is a list of which files are there.  "headers.info" contains
> the dependencies and other whatnot to determine if it's appropriate for
> your system.
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>> Or is there a better way to do this?
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> You can create all that stuff if you wish, but that's tedious, and 
> unless you have the proper scripts, error prone to do.
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> The easier method is to download the entire directory from the FTP site
> (headers and all) and burn that to your CD.  This can be done using 
> "mget *" on the FTP client or by using the "-R" option to ncftpget 
> (recommended method).  See "man ncftpget" for details.
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> I was able to run yum-arch "folder with rpms in it" and it generated 
> the requisite headers, etc. files but all within that folder.  It then 
> looks like this:  /home/rpms/ \"folder with rpms in it".  Yum can't 
> seem to deal with the "backslash" .  It seems odd to me that yum can 
> go out to a mirror and do this but can't do it on my hard drive but 
> maybe that's the way it is.
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