Re: Yuming/Updating via ISO's

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>
> > > I'd certainly be interested to hear the simplest way to do this,
> > > eg I'd like to run "yum groupinstall" from the CDs
> > > from a working FC5 system.
> > I going to try to update my "Yum Repo from Images" HOWTO to include
> > using CD ISO images for those people that don't have the DVD ISO. As I
> > don't have the CD ISOs myself though, there's a bit of information I
> > need: where is the comps.xml file? On the DVD ISO it can be found in the
> > "repodata" directory and has the following MD5SUM (i386):
> >
> > 3c64b01ab4602f6a07dc47e26e96326f  comps.xml
> >
> > Is that on CD1 in the same place? Is it the same file?
>
> There is certainly a file comps.xml there, and it has the same md5sum:
>
>         [tim@elizabeth disk]$ ls repodata/
>         comps.xml  filelists.xml.gz  other.xml.gz  primary.xml.gz  repomd.xml
>                 TRANS.TBL
>         [tim@elizabeth disk]$ cd repodata/
>         [tim@elizabeth repodata]$ md5sum comps.xml
>         3c64b01ab4602f6a07dc47e26e96326f  comps.xml

Thanks; could you give my HOWTO a try:

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages

Cheers, Paul.