[Yum] Linux without Internet

[James Antill]

narendra sisodiya <narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello All.
>     This is my first mail, and I want to know your feeback on this.
> I want to have something for Linux user which do not have Internet
> connection at home or neighbor,
> Instead of internet repo , You can do something different.
> Instead of small small rpm, we separate them into some big chunk of bundle
> with added configuration, which can be interdependently install on a system
> without getting any dependency error

 There where a couple of attempts to do this already, but it's a giant
fail IMO. You are doing the depsolving on the server side, and hoping
the client matches it which is the wrong way around.

 What you want to do is something more like yum-plugin-tmprepo, IMO.

> For this we can start form LSB (linux standard base) and make bundle of rpm
> which are small small (`~~100 MB ) repository for single big software like
> (Xdisplay , open office , FireFox etc) with all added dependency's on it. So
> this will be much like distributing software specific small repo bundle
> which can be directly installed without worrying about any dependency's and
> somewhat similar to installing exe files. (Just click and set the path of
> installation)
>
> However this approach will generate a lot of redundancy in term of space,
> But who cares, a 2GB software will take 10 GB or 20 GB but it will become a
> distributable unit.

 Right, what's an extra 8-18GB between friends?:)

> This sort of packaging is possible so that /media/software drive will become
> transferable/shareable unit to share software,

 There are lots of ways to solve this, sticking everything in one
opaque object is not the right solution.
 Indeed the Fedora CD/DVDs have support for being used from yum
already, which while not perfect is a much better place to start.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org