Yum repository related question

ragsnayak · 12-03-2008, 10:53 PM

Hi,

I using RHEL 4. I have configured yum repository using centos. The url is http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/.

In yum.conf file, I have configured baseurl with the centos url which I have mentioned above.

My questions are
1. Can we have two different baseurls which point to a centos server and my local directory?
2. If yes, which all files have to be configured/modified?

The reason is,
We don't get each and every RPM in centos directory which are needed by different applications. I have some downloaded RPMs. But, yum is not able to figure them out because the baseurl of yum is configured with centos link.

I've been using RHEL 5 from past 6 months. The RPM structure given in the DVD/CD is totally different from RHEL 4.

In RHEL 5, we have Server and VT directories.
In RHEL 4, we have Redhat/ RPMS and Base directories.

Can someone please help me out?

billymayday · 12-03-2008, 11:31 PM

I'm not sure if I'm really following you, but why are you saying you have directory full of rpms that you downloaded that you can't figure out how to get yum to use? If that is the case, you will need to use "createrepo" to generate the structures that yum requires from a repo. Just pointing a url to a directory full of won't work.

I don't know if this link will help on the final point (see post #5)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ro-dvd-652904/

(you should be able to modify for RH)

ragsnayak · 12-03-2008, 11:42 PM

Am not I clear enough?

I have installed createrepo and configured yum also. I have installed n number of rpms.

To install any package, we must configure yum.config or repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d/.

I have configured my yum.cofig with above mentioned URL.

If we want to install some applications, which depend on some RPMs. But, if those are not present in centos directory which is not in some remote place, then how to install those missing RPMs.

As per my understanding, yum basically searches the dependent/required RPMs from the baseurl which we specify in the yum.config or repo file present in the /etc/yum.repo.d.

Can you please help me out?

billymayday · 12-03-2008, 11:49 PM

Are you just putting a list of base-urls in yum.conf? I've never used yum.conf for this (I create repo files), but I would think you would need separate repo entries for each, so something like

[repo1]
name=Repo Number 1
baseurl=http://repo1_url

[repo2]
name=Repo Number 2
baseurl=http://repo2_url

Whereas I'm guessing you have

[repos]
name=Repo
baseurl=http://repo1_url
baseur1=http://repo2_url

Is that correct?

ragsnayak · 12-03-2008, 11:52 PM

Hi Billy,

I've mentioned only one URL in the yum.conf. So, I'll try to give two or more url links. Let me check me the .repo file.

Thanks a lot.

billymayday · 12-03-2008, 11:56 PM

So are you just saying the dependency rpms aren't in any of the repos you have configured?

ragsnayak · 12-04-2008, 12:20 AM

Yes. I think so. I'll check my repo file and yum.config file. I never tried to give two/more urls in the repo file.
If you have any good reference on repo files or solving those dependencies porblem, please suggest me.

billymayday · 12-04-2008, 12:36 AM

I still don't quite follow the problem - try the yum command and post the output.