Gents, I figured this would be a nice thread to add my question to.
Mrepo is installed, and functioning... somewhat. The problem is that repodata/ directories are not being pulled from the mirrors. Here is my mrepo configuration.
[main] hardlink = yes srcdir = /mnt/kickstart wwwdir = /mnt/kickstart confdir = /etc/mrepo.conf.d arch = x86_64 mailto = root@localhost smtp-server = localhost
[centos5] name = CentOS $release ($arch) release = 5.1 arch = x86_64 metadata = repomd yum repoview
### Additional repositories updates = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/$arch/ fasttrack = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/fasttrack/$arch/ centosplus = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/centosplus/$arch/ extras = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/extras/$arch/ addons = http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/addons/$arch/
### RPMforge repository rpmforge = http://rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu/pub/dag/redhat/el5/en/$arch/dag/
Thanks, Vasiliy
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Rudi Ahlers Rudi@softdux.com wrote:
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@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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