On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:47 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > _I_ have seen people on this list say they prefer apt-get; it's clear a lot > don't. I intend to find out about yum, but until I have some experience with > it it don't have any particular expectations. > > Hopes, wishes - those are different. I hoped it would look at my DVD. I wish > it would look at my DVD. > > For the moment, I have nothing better than the find command I mentioned a > while back, and the hope I can resolve dependancies. To get yum to look at your DVD: 1. You'll need the "createrepo" package installed. 2. Let's say your DVD is mounted at /my/software/lib/fedora/3/dvd # cd /my/software/lib/fedora/3 # createrepo . That should result in a directory /my/software/lib/fedora/3/repodata being created. 3. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and comment out the line: mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core- $releasever add a line: baseurl=file:///my/software/lib/fedora/3 Yum should now use your DVD. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
