I set up a HTTP Yum server and it is working fine. But in the server, I can not run Yum client with file:// protocol URL. What I get is: ---------- # yum list updates Not using ftp or http for servers, Aborting - file:///home/Packages/Linux/RedHat/8.0/ ---------- The path is right, and in the yum.conf man page says I can use file:// protocol. If I change the protocol to http:// the Yum client works fine in the server. Any sugestions? Also, I think it just took too long to download all the needed headers, even the client and the server being the SAME machine. I know there is a lot of HTTP overhead when you download MANY small files, but more than 1 second for each file was too long. (The CPU reported average 90% idle time during download). Did I miss something? Thanks My /etc/yum.conf file: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest [rh8] name=Red Hat Linux 8.0 baseurl=http://www.mysite.com/Packages/Linux/RedHat/8.0/
