On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 10:12 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > 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. It's working here with fedora-core.repo having: baseurl=file:///srv/softlib/fedora/bordeaux/dvd and an fstab entry of: /srv/softlib/fedora/bordeaux/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso /srv/softlib/fedora/bordeaux/dvd iso9660 ro,loop,fscontext=system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0 0 0 With this, I can also serve the repo over http and/or ftp for other clients on the LAN. Paul.
