On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:34, Jason Hay wrote: > Dear Yum guys, > > I've finally abandoned MS in favour of FC3 after a short learning > period, but I am away from my Uni on placement and I only have access > to the interweb at work. > > I have used their Broadband to download the entire FC3 update repo, > and have been "shipping" it home in 512Mb chunks using the USB key > which they've kindly supplied me. > > What I would like to do is use Yum to update my desktop at home, using > the folder full of updates I have now placed in my HOME folder. > > I've tried creating a new repo reference in etc/yum.repos.d using > createrepo file:/usr/me/HOME/updatefolder to create the repo in my > home directory, and file:/usr/me/HOME/updatefolder to refer to it in > the .repo file I created, but I keep getting the error "Unable to find > valid URL for base". You've used creatrepo in the directory to generate all the info that yum needs? Don't have access to an FC3 box at the mo' so I can't give you the exact command syntax, but it should be googleable. Indeed it is: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/richard_flude/repo/ HTH, Huw
