On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 22:43 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:20 AM +0100 Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I don't think it includes the metadata (the FC3 DVD didn't anyway). > > However, that can be fixed fairly easily: if you've loopback-mounted the > > DVD at (say) /srv/software/fc4/dvd then running "createrepo" in > > the /srv/software/fc4 directory should create a suitable set of metadata > > for using with yum. > > Does it create it "out of tree"? The original yum put the headers in a > subdirectory of the RPMS directory, making it unsuitable for retrofitting > onto read-only filesystems. I've now done this myself, so I can write with a little more authority :-) Let's say your ISO is: /srv/software/fc4/iso/FC4-i386-DVD.iso Let's say you've mounted it at: /srv/software/fc4/dvd/ This will place the RPMs at: /srv/software/fc4/dvd/Fedora/RPMS/ Create the metadata as follows: # cd /srv/software/fc4 # createrepo . This will create a metadata folder called: /srv/software/fc4/repodata/ That data will refer to the RPMs in: /srv/software/fc4/dvd/Fedora/RPMS/ Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
