On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:21 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > > 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 -- I tried baseurl=file//marshall.localnet.cxm/home/mclark/x86_64updates/ and baseurl=file//localhost/home/mclark/x86_64updates/ again no luck, same error as last time. And I am root when I try to update. Marshall Clark <mclark323@xxxxxxx>
