marian szczepkowski wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use yum to install to a file system without having yum > install all the repo and cache data on the destination filesystem. The > installroot directive appeared to be what I was after, but all fails, > and the following is what I get, > [root@cherafir ~]# yum -c /root/yumstuff/yum.conf install yum > Yum Version: 2.2.1 > COMMAND: yum -c /root/yumstuff/yum.conf install yum > Installroot: /root/mnt > Ext Commands: > yum > Setting up Install Process > Setting up Repos > No Repositories Available to Set Up > > My yum.conf looks like this, and I have placed a known working set of > repo's in the yumstuff directory > [main] > cachedir=/root/yumstuff > debuglevel=10 > logfile=/root/yumstuff/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=20 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=1 > installroot=/root/mnt > reposdir=/root/yumstuff > cachedir=/root/yumstuff > > My guess is "No Repositories Available to Set Up" You are not pointing yum at any repositories, so it has nothing to do. You'll need to add a repository section into your yum.conf such as [macromedia] name=Macromedia Flash Plugin baseurl=http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/rpm/ enabled=1 Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
