Hello,

I have a disk of all the rpms (just the rpms) of RH Ent. 5.1. I needed to intall some packages from it. For that I created a local repository. Following is what I did:

1. mounted DVD in /media
2. Issued createrepo on /media (Now the packages are in /media/mycdrom/RHE5Rpms and the repodata is in /media)
3. I added the following in the /etc/yum.conf
[MyPackages]
name=Packs
baseurl=file:///media
enabled=1

Now when I try to install, for example, qt4-devel, it can resolve the dependencies for one level. For example, it resolves libpng-devel (which is needed by qt4-devel), but it fails to resolve libpng (which is needed by libpng-devel). But libpng package is both available in the DVD and is already installed on the machine. Following is the tail of error messages I get after issuing the command 'yum install qt4-devel'

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Error: Missing Dependency: libpng = 2:1.2.10-7 is needed by package libpng-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGLU = 6.5.1-7.2.el5 is needed by package mesa-libGLU-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: libX11 = 1.0.3-8.el5 is needed by package libX11-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: mesa-libGL = 6.5.1-7.2.el5 is needed by package mesa-libGL-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-16.el5 is needed by package freetype-devel

All the above packages are available through the DVD and already installed on the machine.

As suggested by several forums I issued 'yum clean all' and 'rpm -rebuilddb'. But I still get the same error after doing so.

If anybody knows what it is, please let me know.

If any of the above is not clear, please let me know. I shall try to explain more clearly.

Thanks

You might be better off adding the new repo config in /etc/yum.repos.d
Remove it from /etc/yum.conf
Add it instead to /etc/yum.repos.d/filename.repo if you can..

If you type file:///media in your browser window (on the machine in question) do you see what yum should be seeing?

Hi centosboy,

Thanks for your reply.

What difference is it going to make having the configuration in a separate script?

//If you type file:///media in your browser window (on the machine in question) do you see what yum should be seeing?//
As I have mentioned in my original post, yum is partially working. And resolving dependencies if they are not installed. The problem is only with dependencies that are installed already.

But I have tried both your suggestions. They are fine but I am still having the same problem.

Thanks

Thats my mistake. I had the Red Hat Enterprise 5.0 rpms in my repository but trying to update 5.1 machine. The version number for most of the packages were same/similar which cheated my eyes.

Sorry about the confusion and thanks guys for your support

Thanks