[Yum] Using Yum to update on an isolated machine.

[Danny Smith]

Jason Hay wrote:

> Dear Yum guys,
>  
> I've finally abandoned MS in favour of FC3 after a short learning 
> period, but I am away from my Uni on placement and I only have access 
> to the interweb at work.
>  
> I have used their Broadband to download the entire FC3 update repo, 
> and have been "shipping" it home in 512Mb chunks using the USB key 
> which they've kindly supplied me.
>  
> What I would like to do is use Yum to update my desktop at home, using 
> the folder full of updates I have now placed in my HOME folder.
>  
> I've tried creating a new repo reference in etc/yum.repos.d using 
> createrepo file:/usr/me/HOME/updatefolder to create the repo in my 
> home directory, and file:/usr/me/HOME/updatefolder to refer to it in 
> the .repo file I created, but I keep getting the error "Unable to find 
> valid URL for base".
>  
> Can anybody help with what I may have overlooked?


I think your URL should be file:///usr/me/HOME/updatefolder, i.e file:// 
followed by the full path.

Danny

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