Hi James, > I think you'd need to have two repos, like: > > >[repo1] >name=my repo list1 >baseurl=http://whatever/dir1 > >[repo2] >name=my repo list2 >baseurl=http://whatever/dir2 > >...and if you need to have it on the FS in that way I think you need >to use: --baseurl http://whatever/main_dir Thanks a lot for your mail. This has helped me to progress a bit more but I'm still experiencing some problems. Now I create my repos like: createrepo -i list1 -o dir1 --baseurl=http://main_dir main_dir createrepo -i list2 -o dir2 --baseurl=http://main_dir main_dir And the repo files are as you suggested. Even if in the repomd.xml file there's explicit information about my baseurl: > more dir1/repodata/repomd.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <repomd xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo";> <data type="other"> <location xml:base="http://main_dir"; href="repodata/other.xml.gz"/> ... Yum fails to find the packages because it still tries to get them from the dir1 or dir2 locations instead of from main_dir. I fear that the yum client is not able to understand the xml:base information. I've also thought of using the --installroot option when running yum, but it's not a good idea since it uses it for all the repos I define under /etc/yum.repos.d and I only want to use it for dir1 and dir2 repos. I've also tried to define the repos as: [repo1] name=my repo list1 baseurl=http://whatever/dir1 installroot=http://main_dir [repo2] name=my repo list2 baseurl=http://whatever/dir2 installroot=http://main_dir But it doesn't work either so probably it's a wrong syntax. I can't find much more information about the --baseurl option of createrepo. In the man page of createrepo it says: --baseurl <url> Optional base url location for all files. (not used by any clients at this time) Maybe yum is not able to use this option (?) Thanks a lot, Maria _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
