Ed Greshko wrote:
I'm an old hand at this. I am sure there will be some that will tell you
that you can set up a "local repo" and use yum. However, I would simply use
"rpm -ivh" and if there were any dependency issues I would figure them out
on my own.
Ouch Ed.. You seem to enjoy self-inflicted pain....
Leaving the sarcasm behing, setting up a local repository using the
DVD/CDs (in case of previous releases) is quite simple. Let's suppose
you have the isos. It would go like this:
mkdir /mnt/coreiso
mount -o loop F-7-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/coreiso
mkdir /somewhere/repo
From now, two possibilities
1 ) cp -R /mnt/coreiso/* /somewhere/repo
then edit your fedora-core.repo and set baseurl=file:///somewhere/repo
OR
2) cp -R /mnt/coreiso/Fedora/RPMS/* /somewhere/repo
createrepo /somewhere/repo/ (you'll need to install the
createrepo package)
edit fedora-core.repo and set baseurl=file://somewhere/repo/ as well
The difference is just because the repodata is in the root of the DVD.
If you copy only the RPMS dir , you'll have to recreate it.
Now that you got a repository configured, you can export it using NFS ,
FTP or HTTP , so any other machines you have can use it.
The only downside of this local repository is that the Everything
repository on the mirrors has a lot more packages , but it helps a lot,
specially since you mentioned you have an annoying FAP.
--
Pedro Macedo
