Can yum download to a pen-drive?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 17:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
> [localrepo]
> name=Fedora Local Repo
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=file:///Repo
> enabled=1
> #
>
> You need to create the Repo directory, containing Packages, and the
> repodata folder (from the DVD) in it. In your case it should just work
> directly, with the appropriate mods to baseurl in the local.repo file to
> point to the mounted pendrive.
>
> Move any other .repo files to one side so they won't interfere, given
> you have no network.
>

For the time being I've added the local stanza to yum.conf (it does say you 
can).  Unfortunately, it looks as though this is not going to work.  It says 
it loaded refresh-packagekit, but then

Options Error: Error parsing '10': invalid boolean value

Any idea where that comes from?

Anne