Hi, First time when I created a 600 MB repo for Fedora 10 during the Install Fest at BCREC on 30 Jan 2009, funny as it might sound, I did quite absurd things and it took me a lot of time ( 2 days). I then installed F10 in VBox, and was trying to install the packages to see their dependencies, then download them manually. What a time!
But, now what I did was yum resolvedep <package-name> Then either install them keeping the yum cache on or, yumdownloader <package-names> I also added the the Packages from the F10 Install DVD, so that there is no Dependency failure if one does an installation selecting the default packages only. Also this time I included the KDE 4.2 update, and it is better to do a yum groupinstall kde-desktop for that. To enable group install in your repo, copy the comps-f10.xml file from /var/cache/yum/updates/comps-f10.xml to your repo folder, then create repo in the following way------- createrepo -g comps-f10.xml /path/to/repo_folder/ Now all you need is a .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ which has the information on the baseurl for offline installation. The present size of my repo is approx. 3.6 GB. It works nicely. The repo can be on any media ( from internal disks to USB flash drives and DVDs). You can mount the repo folder to /var/ftp/pub/ in case you are using an FTP server. Thank you Regards, Ratnadeep Debnath DGPLUG ratnadeepdebnath.wordpress.com On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:26 +0530, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote: >> Hello, >> Finally I have prepared an offline Fedora 10 repo ( though not >> complete), which is ready to install all the basic audio, video, image >> softwares, audio-video codecs, KDE 4.2 update, KdeEdu, VirtualBox, >> Kernel 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686, nvidia drivers, etc. I >> successfully installed updates in my system and another system of my >> friend offline via an FTP server. I have also prepared a kickstart >> file to automate Fedora 10 installation. >> Hope this all works fine and smoothly during the day of the Install >> Fest in Kalyani Govt. College. >> >> Regards, >> Ratnadeep Debnath, >> DGPLUG >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rtnpro >> ratnadeepdebnath.wordpress.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fedora-india mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india > > hi, > > I was making one myself.. I have an install fest on 23rd of March where > we intend to install the latest unity release and codecs etc from a > local repo. > > Can you please enumerate the steps you tool to make the repo? I'll cross > check.. > > Is it on a dvd/cd ? > > regards, > > Ankur > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-india mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india > _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
