Gerd Bitzer wrote:
My repo is under '/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel4'Meanwhile I have created a symlink from '/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel4/RPMS' pointing to '/mnt/rhel4/RedHat/repodata/RPMS/', and have created new metadata with 'createrepo -p -v -o ./rhel4/ ./rhel4/RPMS/'being in '/etc/yum.repos.d'Without the '-o /rhel4/' createrepo complained 'Directory /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel4/RPMS must be writable.' Thats ok, because the symlink points to a directory on the DVD.This is the metadata: # ll rhel4/repodata/ total 8088 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1955688 Feb 13 08:03 filelists.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5730347 Feb 13 08:03 other.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 561309 Feb 13 08:03 primary.xml.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951 Feb 13 08:03 repomd.xml lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Feb 13 08:21 RPMS -> /mnt/rhel4/RedHat/RPMS/ # pwd /etc/yum.repos.d
It's hard.What I did was I created another direcotory containing symlinks to RPMs on the CD/DVD.
something like : mkdir -p /repo/rhel4 cd /repo/rhel4 for f in `find /mnt/rhel4/RedHat/RPMS/ -name "*.rpm"`;do ln -s $f .;done createrepo -v . then create a .repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d with baseurl=file:///repo/rhel4/ RHEL5 was easier because the Server directory already contains repodata.BTW, I think /etc/yum.repos.d is intended to store repository config files, not to store the actual repositories.
Regards, Fajar
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