We just started installing fc11 on a closed network. (not on the internet oh well)
Does anyone have a recommendation on how to set up a software repo?
What do we do to the server and what do we do to clients.
I want to do a network install and update over the network.

> I put the fc11 rmps at /var/ftp/fc11/
> Then #createrepo /var/ftp/fc11/
>then I put a file in
File /etc/yum.repos.d/local-repo.repo:

which contained:
[myrepo]
name= local-repo
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/fc11/
enabled=0

I get errors when I #yum install vsftpd
can't find repo.xml files.

Question:
Do I have to

yum localinstall <absolute path to package name/s>

and/or
yum clean all

You have to install "createrepo" and run it. It will create all the appropriate files for you.

did it "createrepo /var/ftp/fc11/"

You need to enable the repository
You should probably remove the space in the line
also.

Solved the problem.

It's all in the syntax and this command:
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=local-repo install vsftpd

I can also install from other clients on the network.

Thank you

Remember that the disablerepo command was a one time only thing. Next time you use yum the repos that are enabled by default will be used.

And the enabled= is where that 'default" is specified. 0=no, 1=yes.