[Yum] Re: yum update problem with biarch (i686/x86_64)

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christopher Allen Wing wrote:

> We then dynamically generate a yum.conf file which points to various yum
> repositories (depending upon the configuration of the particular machine),
> and we create a yumgroups.xml file from the flat text file list of RPMs.
> Then we run 'yum groupinstall' to do the work.
> 
> All of our yum repositories are on file servers, so we don't want yum to
> bother copying the RPMs locally before installing. Currently we have a
> gross hack where we make a fake cache directory which just has symlinks
> back to the real yum repositories on the file server. We run yum -C so it
> doesn't try to download anything but instead just follows the symlinks.
> (Sorry, I was too lazy to fix yum to not attempt to actually download for
> file:// URLs)

BTW: yum-2.1 doesn't copy files for file:// url. And it appears to use
comps.xml directly for group operations. So you might want to take a
look at it.

Satish