First - thank you _all_ for your work on yum. Count me as another convert. Second - a question related to: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article/node17.html Which says in part: >> Warning! If the repository is a locally mounted filesystem, remember >> to include the leading path slash for the URL, as in >> >> baseurl=file:///path/to/repository >> >> Forgetting to do this is a fairly common cause of initial failure. Acknowledging that you must be right about that... I've done it wrong and yum still seems to be working correctly. ?? My FC1 client's yum.conf has this: [base] name=Fedora Core 1 - Base baseurl=file:/mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1 It's an NFS mount (in fstab) of a lan directory with the RPMs from the FC1 CDs. I know how that yum.conf entry was created. I did a copy/paste from the location in konqueror. I wouldn't bother about it, except that /var/cache/yum/base/headers on that client seems to have the proper list of headers for RC1 base. Shouldn't I expect that directory to be empty if baseurl= was wrong? And, it's updated and installed several times without trouble. If it will help, that FC1 box is strictly for testing and I'd be happy help if I can. best, Cliff Kent
