[CentOS] yam help

Fri Sep 15 19:56:29 UTC 2006
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

Dag Wieers wrote:
> yOn Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs.  I
> > have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. 
> > No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo.
> 
> This is the wrong mailinglist. See the Yam website for the correct
> mailinglist.
> 
> 
> > This is my current yam.conf file:
> > 
> >     [main]
> >     srcdir = /var/yam
> >     wwwdir = /var/www/yam
> >     arch = i386
> > 
> >     [centos]
> >     name = CentOS $release ($arch)
> >     release = 4
> >     arch = i386
> >     metadata = repomd
> >     os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/
> 
> Yam can handle the ISO files directly. Look at the examples that come
> with Yam. There is no need to copy the file from the ISO files.

I'll try that again.  The first time I tried it, I was intending to
share the repo with nfs and the ISO mounts caused problems with that.
I've since switched to http.

But shouldn't there be a way to do this with the directory?  I thought
that was what the file:// format was for?

-- 
Bowie