On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:53:44AM -0700, Kevin Layer wrote:
> Problem solved:
>
> I had used the DVD to populate my initial FC6 mirror, including the
> repodata. When I refresh the repodata with from the mirrors, yum
> started working.
I'm not sure what you mean. Here's what I did:
* On the repo server: create a new set of repodata with createrepo. I
did this without extracting the RPM files from the DVD; I just moved
to the directory above that on which the DVD is mounted.
* On the client: clean out old repo data with "yum clean all", then
re-run the "yum install emacs" command.
I also upgraded the server's creatrepo to the FC6 version, which has
an amusing bug:
[root charlesc fc6]# rpm -q createrepo
createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6
[root charlesc fc6]# createrepo -V
0.4.3
Upgrading creatrepo may not be necessary.
I didn't use createrepo and didn't know that I needed to. If
populating my mirror from the DVD was the wrong thing to do (and I
really need to use createrepo after copying the DVD), that's fine. I
was just trying to save time in the mirroring FC6.
I just want to save others the pain of what I went through.
