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

[Huw Lynes]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:34, 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".


You've used creatrepo in the directory to generate all the info that yum
needs?

Don't have access to an FC3 box at the mo' so I can't give you the exact
command syntax, but it should be googleable. Indeed it is:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/richard_flude/repo/

HTH,
Huw