Re: local repo error

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 06:22 +0500, abac wrote:
> hi,
> i have local rpms and wnat to use as local repo for yum i made this 
> directories:
> /extra/updates/RPMS
> put all the rpms in the RPMS directory and run the command:
> createrepo updates/
> the repodata directory was created with these files:
> filelists.xml.gz other.xml.gz primary.xml.gz repomd.xml
> i add the updates.repo to yum.repos.d:
> [updates]
> name=extra - updates
> baseurl=file://extra/updates/
> enabled=1
> 
> now when i run yum update get this error for the local repo:
> dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> file://extra/updates/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] 
> No such file or directory: '/updates/repodata/repomd.xml'
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors 
> to try.
> please help me.

file:///extras/updates

notice the 3rd / there.

that's b/c file url's break up like:
file://HOSTNAME/path

so you have to do 3 slashes.

-sv