On 1/22/06, Linux Counter (
li.counter.org) #386711
<pyrophobicman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've already expressed my disgust at the install of FC5T2, now I
have
questions about YUM.
Firstly, will it help me install packages that are on the disks but
haven't been installed?
Secondly, How do I use yum without an internet connection?
It seems to lock up without a bug report, looking for internet tables?
Yum uses the internet by default to access the repositories. The
solution is to copy contents of the CDs (or the isos) and make a local
repository. However, this isn't very useful with Rawhide since it is
always changing and gets lots of updates.
I don't know if the CDs have a repodata directory. If not, to make a
repository, you need to run createrepo on the directory where you
copied the files.
createrepo ~/pub/fedora/4/x86_64/os
I do this on my home machine for released versions even though I have
a good connection. It makes installing packages faster and I don't
have to download packages multiple times. For example, the baseurl
line in my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo looks like:
baseurl=file:///scratch/pub/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/
- Ian