seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:48 -0700, Al Pacifico wrote: >> I'm having difficulty with yum appending >> 'Fedora/RPMS/' onto the baseurl of my local repository >> when trying to update using a file:// URL. >> >> The relevant line(s) in my .repo are: >> [core] >> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch >> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ >> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever >> baseurl=file:///srv/www/html/yum/Fedora/Core/$releasever/base/$basearch/ >> enabled=1 >> gpgcheck=1 >> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora >> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY >> >> I think this behavior has to do with the file:// URL >> assuming it is using a Fedora distro CD as a >> repository and respecting the file layout of the CD. >> >> This particular .repo is from a machine that has been >> serving as a repository on a LAN... I could change it >> to use an http://127.0.0.1/... URL, but I wish to >> disable yum's behavior (appending 'Fedora/RPMS/') on >> another machine for use with mock. >> >> Suggestions??? > > Did you use the repodata directly from the cd/dvd? > > If so - then that's probably the issue. Generate new repodata for the > copy you've made to the local directory. Could this issue also be solved by including under the local drive's .../$basearch/ directory: repodata/ folder from the dvd and Fedora/RPMS/ folder from all of the cd's (of the dvd) ? DaveT.
