[Yum] Readonly Repo - createrepo a folder up.

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

Gerd Bitzer wrote:
> My repo is under '/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel4'
> Meanwhile I have created a symlink from '/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel4/RPMS' pointing to '/mnt/rhel4/RedHat/repodata/RPMS/', and have created new metadata with 
> 'createrepo -p -v -o ./rhel4/ ./rhel4/RPMS/'
> being in '/etc/yum.repos.d'
> Without the '-o /rhel4/' createrepo complained 
> 'Directory /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel4/RPMS must be writable.' Thats ok, because the symlink points to a directory on the DVD. 
>
> This is the metadata:
>
> # ll rhel4/repodata/
> total 8088
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1955688 Feb 13 08:03 filelists.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 5730347 Feb 13 08:03 other.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  561309 Feb 13 08:03 primary.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     951 Feb 13 08:03 repomd.xml
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 Feb 13 08:21 RPMS -> /mnt/rhel4/RedHat/RPMS/
> # pwd
> /etc/yum.repos.d
>
>   

It's hard.
What I did was I created another direcotory containing symlinks to RPMs 
on the CD/DVD.
something like :

mkdir -p /repo/rhel4
cd /repo/rhel4
for f in `find /mnt/rhel4/RedHat/RPMS/ -name "*.rpm"`;do ln -s $f .;done
createrepo -v .

then create a .repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d with
baseurl=file:///repo/rhel4/

RHEL5 was easier because the Server directory already contains repodata.
BTW, I think /etc/yum.repos.d is intended to store repository config 
files, not to store the actual repositories.

Regards,

Fajar
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