Morgan Read wrote: > Hi, > If I set up a local repo with the FC3 dvd mounted in it, can I then > use it as my "[base]" "baseurl" (with Internet mirrors or not? Does > createrepo provide all the xml meta stuff necessary for doing > groupinstall, etc. straight from the mounted dvd distro? Yes you can. I raised this question some time ago because I have *many* machines and not all the same arch, so it is an issue for me. What I ended up doing is having local cache repos which caches the most common files. Works like a charm except for it is what you would call "an undocumented feature". In princip yum does not prioritize repos. In praxis it does. Your cache just has to be mentioned before the master repo. An example: ---- snippet from my /etc/yum.conf of an x86 machine --- #To activate - remove the # in front of the following lines [cache0] name=cache0 baseurl=http://yum.jeppesens.com/test0/yum/ #To activate - remove the # in front of the following lines #[cache1] #name=cache1 #baseurl=http://yum.jeppesens.com/test1/yum/ [base] name=base baseurl=http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/ http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/ http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/core/3/i386/os/ --- end snippet --- cache0 is near cache for the base repo. It works fine. If the cache file is ok then it will be used. If the main repo has updated then it will be used. Also: I use the following script to create repos. Note that I create both the old time headers as the new xml structure. Just because I do have machines that are transitioning from the old to the new structure. Customers - I can't control them (and I won't) but I can make life a bit easier for them. The script works this way: I just make a directory. Then I cd to it and then I run ../genheaders This will create an absolutely empty structure. Then I just fill the rpms directory with whatever I need and then run the script again...and again...and again. I mean: everytime I change something of course. --- genheaders script --- cat genheaders #!/bin/bash home=$(pwd) rm -rf rpms/repodata rpms/headers rpms/.olddata yum rpms/*.lsm ln -s rpms yum for nn in rpms rpms/repodata; do if [ ! -e $nn ]; then mkdir $nn fi done if [ ! -e RPMS.yum ]; then ln -s rpms RPMS.yum fi if [ -x /usr/bin/yum-arch ]; then #yum-arch -vcz . yum-arch -vz rpms fi cd rpms for nn in *.rpm; do [ ! -e ${nn}.lsm ] && rpm -q --queryformat %{Description} -p $nn > ${nn}.lsm done if [ -x /usr/bin/createrepo ]; then cd $home createrepo -v rpms/ fi cd $home chown -R yum:yum * --- end script --- Karsten
