Jack, Thanks for the feedback. Typos noted. I've just setup FC5test3 on a VMWare virtual machine and looking into those issues now. Regards, Joe. On 3/2/06, Jack Spaar <jspaar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:18:36 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > > > This software is for individual Fedora users and sys-admins who need to > > update one or more Fedora systems that are connected to the internet > > with low to medium bandwidth link (eg dialup, ISDN, satellite). > > > > I couldn't get tomcat going on FC4 easily (first time messing with it). > So I set up tomcat on a rawhide box and pointed it to your test repo of > deltas and a local copy of FC4 base RPMS. Then I was able to update an > FC4 box by changing only the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo to use > that rawhide box as a yum virtual repo. It worked great. > > A few notes: > > A typo in the manual (http://www.wombat.ie/software/rpmdc/manual.html): > >In the 'updates-released' section > >of the file change the baseurl to > > > >baseurl=http://localhost:8080/RPMDC/repo/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > > Should be: > .../core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ > > IMO it would also be handy to have a link to the RPMDC download in the > installation section of the RPMDC manual. > > Rpm-devel is required to compile deltarpm (this will be obvious to > some from the compiler errors about missing includes). > > RPMDC wouldn't compile on the rawhide box [(GCC) 4.1.0 20060219 (Red > Hat 4.1.0-0.29)] like it would on FC4, but the .war provided in the binary > tarball ran just fine. > > Tomcat needed the xml-commons-apis package to keep it from complaining at > startup. > > Neat project! > > --Jack Spaar > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
