Paul Howarth wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:06 -0700, Kevin Grover wrote: > >>I installed FC5 (at work) from an NFS mount. I picked the 'customize >>later' option on intial install rather than spend the time to select >>individual packages. When I run 'Add/Remove Software' from the Gnome >>(metacity) WM, a GUI pops up, it thinks for a while and gives me an >>error: >> >>'unable to retrieve software information' >> >>[[Note much help there. Reminds me of an old fortan compiler that >>simply said 'No' if the source file had any error.]] >> >>When I click OK the GUI closes (all windows go away), >> >>After poking around, I figured out what program was running (pirut) >>and ran it from the command line. Now I see an error there: >> >>'ERROR: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core' >> >>I looked for help on pirut on the system >>the program has --help or -h option >>no man page >>no info page >>nothing found in included help (html) >>/usr/doc/pirut* was useless >>briefly looked at pirut python code, no help there >> >>Is there a way I can get pirut to look at the nfs mounted image for >>install packages instead of going over the net? I can not possibly >>put this machine on an Internet connection. I guess, I can just nuke >>everything and re-install and actually choose the options. I almost >>wish I would have just left FC4 on the machine. >> >>I also tried yum, rpm, and system-install-packages but it seemd that I >>had to list a needed packages explicitly. I tried for a while and >>gave up. There must be an easier way. >> >>If there's some other program I can use, or if I can get rpm or yum to >>let me select packages. I want to install the KDE stuff, some other >>WMs, and set XDMCP to be launchable from Applications (?? I think >>menu) on the login screen. I know XDMCP is not secure, it does not >>matter: the network this will run on a physically secure. >> >>Everything worked fine (installing new software with pirut) on my home >>machine (which is connected to the Internet). >> >>Any help appreciated. >> >>[[FC5 seams to have so much documentation, but never anything I'm >>really lookiing for]] > > > All of the FC5 package management tools are based on yum. > > Yum is by default configured to get packages from the Internet. > > There is currently no support in yum or the other tools for reading > package information from CD or DVD media, though this is planned for the > future. Not entirely true. You can get it to work. I have a copy of the DVD ISO on my system which is mounted through the loop-back mount (but it would work equally well for the extracted DVD). In some other directory I have a symlink to the Fedora subdirectory from the DVD. In that (other) directory I ran the command createrepo -g Fedora/base/comps.xml . This directory I can now use as a source for yum (and hence pirut, yumex, etc.). > This is all mentioned here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common > > On that page you will find a link to my workaound for this issue: > http://www.city-fan.org/tips/YumRepoFromImages > > Paul. > > -- Sjoerd Mullender
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
