On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 09:36, Tom Diehl wrote: > On 22 Dec 2002, seth vidal wrote: > > > so, more to the point of this list - did yum work as you expected it? > > So far yes. It seems to be working great. I only have it on 1 machine at > this point but right now I plan to deploy it further. > > Another quick question can yum be made not to download the rpms if the > repository is on the local machine? I have not had time to experiment > and I have not seen anything in the docs on this. > > I do not see the point of copying the rpm if it is already on the machine. > > Thanks for the help and the excellent program. > > file:// url support is not enabled - but yum will use a local cache of packages in its package dir - it doesn't download them if it has them. I believe some of the asplinux people hacked file:// support in - but I'm not sure of that. -sv
