On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Francois Massonneau wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, but I'm totally new at yum, I've just discovered it this morning > and downloaded the necessary file. > First I want to say is that it works perfectly fine, out of the box. > Great job. Welcome!! > Now, these are the questions : sorry, but I'm a totally newbie, but I've > read the archives of the mailing list first (but not all messages ;-) ) > > - I don't run a server, and my connection to the internet is using a > simple modem (33600 ;-( ), but I would like to be able to tell "yum" to > look somewhere on my hard drives for new packages. I use to download > and install from time to time new packages, and to build packages of my > own. So would it be possible to add to yum.conf something like : > [local_files] > name=Misc File locally available on my system > baseurl=/usr/local/misc/update/addons/ AFAIK you need at least an ftp server. Just setup vsftp or something similar for your internal use. > - Is there a graphical user interface. I saw messages about that last > month. Not yet. > - is there a parameter to tell yum not to keep downloaded files from a > specific location ? If the answer is yes, to my first question (a > support for a kind of local repository), I would not like to have the > same files in my local directories, and in the /var/cache/yum > directory. Just the ones downloaded from the internet are interested to > me to keep. Not at this time. It has been talked about in the past but I am not sure when if ever Seth will implement it. > thanks a lot, and sorry for my english but that's not my native > language. You did just fine. Hope this helps. -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....
