On Dec 23, 2007 10:20 PM, Tom Laramee <laramee at pobox.com> wrote: > > that's what i'm looking for ... only problem is, it doesn't look like > any of > the other repositories i've seen (in terms of filesystem structure), so > when i add the following to my /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file: > > [debuginfo] > name=CentOS-$releasever - Debuginfo > mirrorlist=http://vault.centos.org/debuginfo/$releasever/$basearch > gpgcheck=0 > enabled=1 > > ... and then do a "yum list" command, yum does go out to retrieve > the contents of that repo, but it pukes on the input because it's > not what yum is expecting (it says it's unparsable). > > other repos i've seen have 3 top-level directories: > RPMS/ > headers/ > repodata/ > > .... and this one doesn't have the same filesystem structure, it just > has a top-level directory with all of the packages in it. > > so long story short: how do i enable this repo in yum, given it > doesn't look like it follows the standard repository structure? It would work; change the mirrorlist to baseurl. The only thing is that the metadata (repodata files) are not up-to-date at this moment, so newer rpms may not be found by yum. If you do not need to pull many debuginfo files, you can just manually download them. Akemi