[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora 2.98 CD install , CD Not Found .

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 08:50 -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:55 -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> >>  	Ok ,  I finally have 2.0 on the LX .  I do not have sufficient
> >>  	network bandwidth to do a 'yum update' & that poor lil'LX just
> >>  	doesn't have enough ummpphhh to get out of it's own way .
> >>
> >>  	That said ,  I can put all of the 2.99 (of 29-Aug) in a
> >>  	directory just as Charles suggested from which I was able to
> >>  	get 2.0 installed from .  Or even nfs share the whole bloody
> >>  	DVD .  Either way would work for making the rpm's available .
> >>  	But how do I do a yum/??? update from a local source ?
> >>  	As far as I can tell the 2.99 dvd iso is not yummified .
> 
> > You should be able to install the createrepo package, then run:
> >
> > createrepo /local/dir/with/rpms
>  	Ok ,  in progress .
> 
> > Then, set up a yum repo with:
> > baseurl=file:///local/dir/with/rpms
>  	How do I tell 'yum upgrade' to use that baseurl ?
>  	ie: which file do I put it in or command line option ?
> 
>  	Or do I even use 'yum upgrade' or 'yum update' ?

Make a new file (corona.repo) in /etc/yum.repos.d/

In that corona.repo file, put:

[corona]
name=Corona
baseurl=file:///local/dir/with/rpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Save the file (make sure you fix the local filepath from my dummy path),
then run: yum update.

~spot