Re: yum vs system-config-package

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 02/01/05

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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:40:04 +0000

    On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:16 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
    > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:19:37 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> wrote:
    > > Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
    > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:20:32 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> wrote:
    > > >>On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 23:12 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
    > > >>>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:38:29 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> wrote:
    > > >>>>Add/Remove packages (system-config-packages) gets confused once you've
    > > >>>>updated packages to errata versions (e.g. by doing "yum update"). You're
    > > >>>>better off just sticking with yum.
    > > >>>
    > > >>>Hello!
    > > >>>
    > > >>>That means yum and system-config-packages have a compatible problem ?
    > > >>>What should I do if I want to install packages ? User Yum or
    > > >>>system-config-packages ?
    > > >>
    > > >>I would just use yum if I was you.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > But why not make them sync. together?
    > >
    > > That would the thing to do but at the moment there is a problem with
    > > system-config-packages, which is why I suggest sticking to yum for the
    > > time being.
    > >
    > > In FC4 there may well be a yum-based tool that completely replaces
    > > system-config-packages anyway.
    > >
    > > Paul.
    >
    > Thats a good idea but how to install the package from CD ?

    There are a variety of ways of doing this. The simplest is simply to
    mount the CD and manually use "rpm" to install the desired package. You
    may have to install dependency packages first though, as rpm does not
    install dependencies for you.

    If you've got lots of disk space, the easiest thing to do is to create
    your own yum repository and edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo,
    commenting out the line:

    mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-
    $releasever

    and adding a line:

    baseurl=file:///home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-$releasever

    You can create this repo by doing the following:

    # mkdir -p /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3
    (insert 1st FC3 CD)
    # mount /media/cdrom
    # cp /media/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/*.rpm /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3
    # umount /media/cdrom
    (repeat previous 3 steps for each of the remaining FC3 CDs)
    # cd /home/my-yum-repo/fedora-core-3
    # rpm -Uvh createrepo*
    # createrepo .

    You'll need at least 2GB free space in /home to do this.

    You'll then be able to use yum to install packages from your local repo
    without ever needing to mount your CDs.

    Paul. 

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Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org>
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