YUM Repos [ftp] error

rajeshux · 12-08-2008, 12:18 PM

Hi Linuxies,

I have set yum repository on a ftp server 192.168.132.1 . My client was 192.168.132.128. My client can list the available rpms but when i try to download them by using yum install <package-name> it shows following error.

Code:

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for zsh-html to pack into transaction set.
media://1192656534.547140%233/zsh-html-4.2.6-1.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
Trying other mirror.
Error: failed to retrieve zsh-html-4.2.6-1.i386.rpm from localrepo
error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>

I hope your hand in resolving the matter.
Linuxie,
India.

hasanatizaz · 12-08-2008, 03:08 PM

havent you dump the packages on the hard drive ?

lazlow · 12-08-2008, 06:24 PM

Did you use the createrepo package? If not how did you set it up? It looks like you just tried to reroute the media repo.

rajeshux · 12-08-2008, 10:10 PM

As u said, i just copied the the repos tree given on the media to a ftp tree. So how can i set createrepo on to ftp server. Can you detail the command switches for createrepo to recognize the remote rpms.

lazlow · 12-08-2008, 10:26 PM

Just do a search on createrepo package. It should be in the standard repos.

hasanatizaz · 12-09-2008, 01:02 AM

createrepo /ftp/directory-where-packages-are-dumped/