Paul Howarth wrote: > 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... I didn't read that. ;-) Sorry. > >>>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. For some reason, that didn't work for me. I didn't investigate why. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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