Non-urgent query re: yum ?

Todd Denniston Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil
Thu Aug 21 21:41:34 UTC 2008


Tom Horsley wrote, On 08/21/2008 05:07 PM:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:00 -0400
> William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does yum have a 'file' switch or option like most other programs dealing
>> with several pieces of data?
> 
> Yum works off the repository definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/
> 
> You can setup your own repo fairly simply if you have a collection
> of rpms, all you need is to run the createrepo tool over the
> directory (then discover the syntax to use in the repo definition
> to say "local directory" rather than http: - a syntax I don't remember
> right off hand :-).
> 

copy the fedora-updates.repo
change the text between []
change the text after name=
comment the mirrorlist
uncomment the baseurl
baseurl=file:///my/repo/location/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/



> Then you can use the yum --disablerepo and --enablerepo options
> to tell it which ones to use.
> 
you might also wish to modify enabled= in the repo files.

> P.S. /usr/bin/createrepo comes in the package named "createrepo"
> (a miracle! :-).
> 


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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter




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