glibc and other packages

Michal Jaegermann michal at ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca
Thu Jul 7 15:25:28 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:59:16PM +1000, Samad, Alex wrote:
> 
> In the process of downloading packages, but it hard to find out which
> one you need to satisfy a dependency...

Once you downloaded packages, and "manual" dependency resolution
gives you troubles, you may run 'createrepo' on a directory with
these packages thus creating your own yum repository with current
headers.  Now point yum in your configuration to this directory,
with a URL in a form 'baseurl=file://<path_of_your_repo>' (this
will end with with _three_ slashes) and you are ready to roll.

You can also add a URL of the original repository to your list, in
case something you did not download is still needed, but then use
'failovermethod=priority'.  All of that is described in yum
documentation.

   Michal

p.s.  Older versions of yum were using 'yum-arch' instead of
'createrepo'.  This creates repository metadata in a different format.




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