Jeff Spaleta wrote: > its quite easy to rebuild the metadata "createrepo" package will > generate the repodata directory. So make your directory of rpms and > then run createrepo against it... then add the config file...create > the iso. > Wow. That IS easy. Great. > Additionally before making the iso you can use repoclosure from the > yum-utils package in Extras to check for package deps self-consistency > in your tree. Is an updates repo considered self-consistent despite the fact that it depends on the base repo? > The biggest problem right now is correct automagical detection of cds. > For anyone who has a cd that isnt using /media/cdrom they will have > to edit the config file you provide. No big deal .. just annoying. > Sounds like from other posts the "right" people are figuring out how > to do this more robustly. > Actually, I was thinking that, given the nature of such a CD, a better option might be to include a script on the CD that generates the correct config file and passes it to yum, perhaps pulling any additional settings from /etc/yum.conf (or perhaps not...). In such a case, it could autodetect the repo location, then prompt the user for confirmation. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
