I installed the RHEL 7 beta here to test while waiting for CentOS 7 to
arrive. On noticing that yum didn't work, I decided to set up a local
mirror. I rsync'd
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages/
to a local web server here, then regenerated the repodata directory with
createrepo.
Now yum works fine, for the most part. "yum search foo" pulls up a
plausible list of packages, "yum install bar" chases dependencies as
expected, etc.
Unfortunately, "yum groupinstall" isn't working, which means I have no
easy way to install Gnome on my minimal EL7 installation. Apparently I
need some kind of "groups file" to feed to createrepo --groupfile, but I
don't know where to get one, or how to construct one. I've dug around
on ftp.redhat.com and can't find anything that looks plausible.
I've tried manually installing packages to build up this GNOME desktop,
but despite installing dozens of things, startx still doesn't give me
something usable.
I know I could get a GNOME desktop by reinstalling the OS, but that
would wipe out a lot of the local work I've done on this VM so far.
The only reason I need X in the first place is that
system-config-printer no longer runs in text mode.
(I'm trying to set up a CUPS server. So yeah, X11 is a prerequisite for
installing a printer now. Lovely.)
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