On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Cliff Kent wrote:
> 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 a quirk in what constitutes a well-formed file URL. There are
three distinct forms (at least) that will be picked up as a file by at
least some browsers (and probably by urlgrabber). In at least galeon:
file:///path/to/file
file:/path/to/file
/path/to/file
all resolve to the local file at /path/to/file. Galeon, at least,
rewrites this as the first, "properly formed" URL in the actual current
location and history. What won't work is:
file://path/to/file
or
file://./path/to/file
So it is entirely possible that
baseurl=/mnt/net/rocketj/install-disks/FedoraCore/FC1
would work as well, with no file: at all, although I haven't tried it.
The point is, of course, that the file component of a URL does not
inherit an implict "head" of /. (a root path), while a web or ftp
component does inherit the root path of the website, or rather, the
primary web address is a representation of the root path.
I made the observation in the article because I am aware of at least two
people who tried the file:// form by accident, probably because it
"looks like" http:// or ftp://. I personally am not religious about the
formedness of URL's, but find it easy to get into trouble with leading
"/"'s and the kind of site you reach if you get in the habit of leaving
off http://, ftp://, file://. Hence my endorsement of the latter form,
with leading /.
rgb
>
> 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
>
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