On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 17:24, Francois Massonneau wrote: > Hi, > > i've just bought a cd-rom containing updated packages for Redhat9.0 > It's structure is : > athlon > i386 > i486 > etc... > noarch > SRPMS > it is mounted on /mnt/cdrom. > > I would like to ask yum to check that cdrom to update the packages > installed on the machine. First, is it possible ? > > If so, I've added to the yum.conf file the following lines : > [local] > name=LocalStuff > baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/$basearch > > But yum doesn't like that, and complains about the header.info file > missing. easy way to do this: mkdir /some/path cd /some/path ln -s /mnt/cdrom . yum-arch -l . add the file:///some/path to your yum.conf presto. -sv
