Re: Aurora 2.98 CD install , CD Not Found .

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:55 -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

>  	Ok ,  I finally have 2.0 on the LX .  I do not have sufficient
>  	network bandwidth to do a 'yum update' & that poor lil'LX just
>  	doesn't have enough ummpphhh to get out of it's own way .
> 
>  	That said ,  I can put all of the 2.99 (of 29-Aug) in a
>  	directory just as Charles suggested from which I was able to
>  	get 2.0 installed from .  Or even nfs share the whole bloody
>  	DVD .  Either way would work for making the rpm's available .
>  	But how do I do a yum/??? update from a local source ?
>  	As far as I can tell the 2.99 dvd iso is not yummified .

You should be able to install the createrepo package, then run:

createrepo /local/dir/with/rpms

Then, set up a yum repo with:

baseurl=file:///local/dir/with/rpms

That should do the trick.

~spot

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