On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 20:50 +0100, Francois Massonneau wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried to find a solution in the mailing list archive, but I did not > find the trick that could help me. > I've just upgraded from FedoraCore 2 to FC3, and I used to update my home > computer (I don't the adsl at home), using my laptop wireless (at work the > adsl is available). > Using FC2, I run "yum-arch -l ." to create the local repository on my > laptop, and a yum update from my home computer with the following entries > in my /etc/yum.conf, worked like a charm. > --------------------- > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=3 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=20 > [laptop] > name=LocalStuff > baseurl=file:///mnt/celtes5/usr/local/myrepo > ---------------------------------- > > Now, using FC3, I saw yum-arch, was useless, and I have to use createrepo. > I've tried the following two ways : > createrepo /usr/local/myrepo > and createrepo -u file:///usr/local/myrepo /usr/local/myrepo > Both seems to work. > But on my home computer, when I run a yum update, I have the following error > message : > [root@celtes2 fm]# yum update > Yum Version: 2.1.11 > COMMAND: yum update > Installroot: / > Setting up Update Process > Setting up Repo: laptop > Baseurl(s) for repo: ['file:///mnt/celtes5/usr/local/myrepo'] > repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > Setting up Repo: base > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base > > How can I do to make to work as before ? Thank you. Francois download and install createrepo from fc3 - then run: createrepo /your/repo -sv
