Using yum for repo that was created with createrepo

Hello,

>
> Ok, I see. But then, how should the repo file look like if you create a repo like this?
> createrepo --split -o dir1 dir2
>
>  As the documentation for --split says, it is used for "split
> media". Ie. where you have more data than will fit on a single CD/DVD,
> at which point anaconda has some magic which makes this work.
>  If you are just accessing this from the network you'll want to create
> a single repo. ... if you are doing both, I think you want to run it
> twice (probably via. some other tool for the media creation bit --
> maybe someone who does CD install disks can answer?)

Thanks for your answer, James. I understand now. But then, what would be the repo file I should use if I create a repository in this way?

createrepo -i list1 -o dir1 main_dir
createrepo -i list2 -o dir2 main_dir

The thing is that I'm wondering whether it makes sense to do this in yum so that main_dir contains all the packages of my release but in dir1 and dir2 I have different views of the repository which actually contain some of the packages of main_dir (as specified in list1 and list2). Does this make sense? How should I define my repo file? If I do this:

[repo]
name=my repo
baseurl=http://whatever/dir1, http://whatever/main_dir

I get some error messages as explained in my original mail. But if I don't specify main_dir, the installation fails since yum is not able to find the physical packages.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Maria