On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 11:41, 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. > Thanks. > 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 ;-) ) search engine available at: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/ > - 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/ in the 2.0 branch and soon to be backported to 1.0 file:// urls are allowed. I use them all the time. so I do: [local] name=localstuff baseurl=file:///home/inst/phoebe/blah/blah you still have to use yum-arch on the path of files to build the headers list but that's pretty trivial. > - Is there a graphical user interface. I saw messages about that last > month. not so far. Erik mentioned working on it but gui interfaces are hard so it might take a bit longer. I hope to make the work go faster with some of the abstractions that are in 2.0 > - 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. When you have a file:// url in the baseurl then it just uses the files where they are - it doesn't download them. It does copy the headers out into the headers dir - it makes it easier to do lookups and cleanups, I've found and the headers are small. > thanks a lot, and sorry for my english but that's not my native No problem. There is at least one other native french speaker on this list, probably more. -sv
