[Yum] Yum client aborts when file protocol is used

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 20:13, Danilo Camara wrote:
> I set up a HTTP Yum server and it is working fine. But in the server, I
> can not run Yum client with file:// protocol URL. What I get is:
> 
> ----------
> 
> # yum list updates
> 
> Not using ftp or http for servers, Aborting -
> file:///home/Packages/Linux/RedHat/8.0/

what version of yum are you using?




> Any sugestions?
up until recent versionf of the 1.0 series file:// url support did not
exist.



> Also, I think it just took too long to download all the needed headers,
> even the client and the server being the SAME machine. I know there is a
> lot of HTTP overhead when you download MANY small files, but more than 1
> second for each file was too long. (The CPU reported average 90% idle
> time during download).

If the http server was on your local machine it could very well have
been disk access.

-sv