Marshall Clark wrote: > Could anyone tell me either howto set up yum to run through a proxy or > update from a local directory? > > Have set up proxy server and can ftp and http the net from all machines > but mail and yum will not work? What should I have done? > > Have copied all file from fedora servers and have update tree > in /home/myname/x86_64 updates/. > > Have tried setting yum.conf cachedir=/home/myname/x86_64 updates/ no > luck. > > Have tried baseurl=file:///home/myname/x86_64 updates/ again no luck. > > I know it is something simple but can't find it, could somebody save me > some time? > > Thanks in advance. > I recently did this and this was the format that I had to use. baseurl=file://<hostname>/path/to/yum/repository/ It looks like you actually have a space in your path. If this is so, you'll have to make sure you have all the special characters in there. It would probrubly be easier just to rename /x86_64 updates/ to /x86_64-updates/ or something like that. Hope that helps Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
