[CentOS] some help on mrepo please

Tue Mar 4 07:40:38 UTC 2008
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

I have downloaded & installed mrepo on my SME 7.3 (CentOS 4.6) server, 
which is our main file & email server, and internet gateway.

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?

This is the folder structure I have:

[root at intranet ~]# ll 
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/linux/files/repos/centos5-i386/
total 28
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 addons
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:07 centosplus
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 custom
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 extras
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 fasttrack
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 rpmforge
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 updates
[root at intranet ~]# ll 
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/linux/files/repos/centos5-x86_64/
total 28
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 addons
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 centosplus
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 custom
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 extras
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 fasttrack
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 rpmforge
drwxr-sr-x  2 root softdux 4096 Mar  4 09:06 updates


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?

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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux

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