> I faced the following problem: > Now at home I don't have internet, but I want to use yum, for example, to > install smbclient and so on... I can download the whole yum repository at > my work. > Q: > May I use that repos. copy at home to upgrade, install RPMS? > > example for meeting my needs: > 1) download http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates/ > 2) copy to my local home HD ( /var/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates/) > 3) put right paths in yum.conf > 4) yum install .... > > Any thoughts? Here is how I set mine up: ---/etc/cron.daily/update_repository --- #!/bin/sh MIRROR_HOST=mirrors.secsup.org RSYNC_REPOSITORY=redhat LOCAL_DIR=/var/ftp/pub rsync -av --partial --stats \ --include "fedora/core/updates" \ --include "updates/9/" \ --exclude "redhat" \ --exclude "contrib" \ --exclude "beta" \ --exclude "fedora/core/1/" \ --exclude "development" \ --exclude "updates" \ --exclude "test" \ ${MIRROR_HOST}::${RSYNC_REPOSITORY} ${LOCAL_DIR} cd /var/ftp/pub/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/ yum-arch . # Snipped the non-i386 specific stuff... --- End update_repository script The main thing you missed is the yum-arch step at the end. Delete the ./headers/ directory from the download copy then rerun yum-arch in your binary directories (e.g., RPMS/i386, RPMS/i686). The rsync script is not optimal -- I had weird errors trying to synch the correct directory :D. But it is working here for me. -- * The Digital Hermit http://www.digitalhermit.com * Unix and Linux Solutions kwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
