Re: Aurora 2.98 CD install , CD Not Found .

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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
 	Ok ,  in progress .

> Then, set up a yum repo with:
> baseurl=file:///local/dir/with/rpms
 	How do I tell 'yum upgrade' to use that baseurl ?
 	ie: which file do I put it in or command line option ?

 	Or do I even use 'yum upgrade' or 'yum update' ?

> That should do the trick.
> ~spot
 	Tia ,  JimL

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