On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Page wrote: > Is there a way of taking all of the RPM's that I have and using them > with Yum? I've never used Yum before... Yes it is possible. One tricky thing is yum version change between FC2 & FC3 [and associated config file path changes] You might want to check instructions at: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc2-fc3-update-with-yum.txt And if you don't want to get yum metadata over the network - you can create a local repository for your files [and don't have to worry about upgrading fedora-release/yum packages first. So - I guess the process would be: - make sure FC2 yum is installed - copy the RPMS to a location - and create a new repo. For eg: mkdir /tmp/rpmfiles cp *.rpm /tmp/rpmfiles cd /tmp/rpmfiles yum-arch . - Now edit /etc/yum.cong file - and add this location to a repository and remove the other repositories listed there. [local] name=Local RPMs baseurl=file:///tmp/rpmfiles - Now do an upgrade yum upgrade You might want to postpone updating yum to a later time. i.e yum --exclude=yum upgrade yum update yum <fix up /etc/yum.conf to the new version> Satish
