A suggestion: Put a very simple yum.conf suitable for Duke in the man page OR comment out the updates and finished sections in the distribution rpm. Both the [updates] and [finished] sections will cause yum to fail even if pointed at e.g. install.dulug.duke.edu/pub/linux/updates (a reasonable guess). It is also hard to see what they are for from man yum.conf, and whether or not yum will work without them. Might be nice to add a comment or two regarding purpose, at least... Empirically, [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log [server] name=7.3 main baseurl=http://install.dulug.duke.edu/pub/linux/dulug-7.3/i386 # [updates] # name=7.3 updates # baseurl=http://install.dulug.duke.edu/pub/linux/updates/ # [finished] # name=dulug finished rpms # baseurl=http://localhost/finished/ seems to work locally. I'm trying a running update from 7.2 -> 7.3 as I write this and it is telling me that it is getting a very long list of .hdr files, so I presume that it is working. It'll take a while to know for sure over a DSL line...;-) Looks lovely, otherwise. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
