[CentOS] some help on mrepo please

[Rudi Ahlers]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>> I have got CentOS 5.0 i386 & x86_64 DVD's, and CentOS 5.1 i386 & 
>> x86_64 CD1, where do I copy these? I have setup 
>> /etc/mrepo.conf.d/centos5.conf with both i386 & x86_64 arch, but how 
>> will mrepo know that CentOS 5.0 & CentOS 5.1 are different?
>
> Wrong mailinglist, please move this to tools at lists.rpmforge.net.
>
> Answer:
>
>     If you want support for both CentOS 5.0 and CentOS 5.1, you need
>     to create 2 config files, one for each. (You could also put them
>     in the same)
>
>     centos-5.0.conf and centos-5.1.conf
>
>     If you also want the extra repositories on both, you can work with
>     internal links, or download it twice.
>
Thanx, I figured as much, seeing that each version has it's own repo on 
the mirrors.
>> I have run mrepo -vv -u to see what it does, but it seems like it's 
>> going to download every file from the CentOS repositories. Where do I 
>> copy the rpm's that I have already downloaded to? For example, all 
>> the rpm's in /var/cache/*/packages folders?
>
> The location is in /etc/mrepo.conf defined as "srcdir = /var/mrepo". 
> You can opt to change this to wherever you want, or make a symlink 
> from /var/mrepo to wherever you want. There is a strict structure 
> underneath that directory.
>
I have already changed that to my network shared folders, and I'm busy 
downloading the scripts now. Am I on the right track if I copy files 
from existing servers / machines' /var/cache/yum/*/packages to the 
corresponding folders on in the mrepo source folders?
> Another way to find the answer to this question is to run mrepo with 
> more -v's like mrepo -vvvvv, so that you can exactly see what it is 
> doing.
>
> Or you could opt to read the documentation that ships with mrepo that 
> explains all of this as well.
>


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