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. > -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg