On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:45 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > 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.). Which is exactly what I suggest as my workaround below... > > 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 ... except that there is no need to run createrepo if you have the DVD ISO because the metadata is already on the DVD. Paul.
