[Yum] Using yum for repo that was created with createrepo

[James Antill]

Maria Alandes Pradillo <Maria.Alandes.Pradillo at cern.ch> writes:

> Hi,
>
>>> I'm experiencing problems when trying to install packages from a repository that was created using --split and --outputdir option.
>>>
>>> The repository was created in this way:
>>>
>>> createrepo --split -o dir1 dir2
>>>
>>> This means that packages are in dir2 and repodata is included in dir1.
>>>
>>> My repo file is:
>>>
>> [repo]
>>> name=my repo
>>> baseurl=http://whatever/dir1, http://whatever/dir2
>
>> This tells yum that there are two places it can get the repomd.xml
>> file from, for the "repo" repo:
>> 
>> http://whatever/dir1/repodata/repomd.xml
>> http://whatever/dir2/repodata/repomd.xml
>>
>>...and that both of those places point to the same MD, ie. one of them
>>is a mirror of another.
>
> Ok, I see. But then, how should the repo file look like if you create a repo like this?
> createrepo --split -o dir1 dir2

 As the documentation for --split says, it is used for "split
media". Ie. where you have more data than will fit on a single CD/DVD,
at which point anaconda has some magic which makes this work.
 If you are just accessing this from the network you'll want to create
a single repo. ... if you are doing both, I think you want to run it
twice (probably via. some other tool for the media creation bit --
maybe someone who does CD install disks can answer?)

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org