On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:25 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:08:39AM -0700, Marshall Clark wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:32 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:21:22AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > > I recently did this and this was the format that I had to use. > > > > > > > > baseurl=file://<hostname>/path/to/yum/repository/ > > > > > > Yes. This is the correct format for file urls. Leaving > <hostname> > > > blank means local host, so if you have something > in /var/repos/fc1, > > > then the baseurl would be: > > > > > > baseurl=file:///var/repos/fc1 > > > > > baseurl=file:///marshall.localnet.cxm/home/mclark/x86_64updates/ > > > > Well that was it as far as for yum going there first. But it says it > > can't find the file. Now I get: > > [Errno 5] OSError [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > > > > '/marshall.localnet.cxm/home/mclark/x86_64updates/headers/header.info' > > > > I changed dir from /root to /home/mclark/x86_64updates/headers/ > > and the file is there! > > Yes, but the path you SPECIFIED is /marshall.localnet.cxm/... > > Read my message again and then try: > > baseurl=file:///home/mclark/x86_64updates/ > > -Michael I already tried it your way the first time! I got Error 4! Here is the output of the command, it goes past the file and on to ftp servers. Is my yum.conf messed up? Thanks in advance. -- Marshall Clark <mclark323@xxxxxxx> -------------- next part -------------- [root@marshall root]# yum update -y Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - x86_64 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree retrygrab() failed for: ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> -------------- next part -------------- [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ #[updates-testing] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/ #[development] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/