Creating a local repository

[Bill Davidsen]

I have two questions on this, or at least 1.5 since I have a workaround 
for one issue.

I turned on the flag in yum.conf to keep rpms in /var/cache/yum, so I 
could avoid beating repositories and networks doing upgrades after an 
install. I put them in a directory, burned a DVD, and I can mount it for 
upgrades, using "yum localupgrade /media/dvd/*.rpm" or similar.

However, I know that someday I will get the "command line too long" 
message, and decided to create a repository. And it looks as if the 
'createrepo' utility is broken. I tried it on my normal machine for FC9, 
and then on 'vestial,' my virgin install which uses only the official 
and production RPMs, no 3rd party, no testing, no rawhide, this is as 
stable as Fedora gets.

Failed the same way there.

So question one: is createrepo broken in FC9?

Then I moved the RPMs to another machine, an old FC6 machine I need to 
use some drivers never updates past FC6. The createrepo there worked 
fine, now how do I use it? Is it best to export via HTTP, or FTP, or NFS 
mount, or ??? I don't find clear docs on doing this, and I'd like to get 
the capability while the "old way" still works.

I'm probably going to wind up doing this for CentOS-5.2 as well, just as 
a time saver.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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