On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:07 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 9/21/06, Lopez, Denise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > I have installed the server beta 5 and am trying to update my packages. I > > have the system subscribed to RHEL Server Virtualization and Server v.5 Beta > > software channels. I have completed a sudo yum update a couple of times > > randomly but it doesn't work every time. > > > > It is a known problem with the RHN servers. I am guessing it is a back > to blackboard problem at the moment... my view is that it won't be > 'fixed' for a bit.
For me "randomly" seems to be maybe 1/10 attempts at yum <whatever>. My solution for installing packages was copy the contents of the DVDs/CDs to directories on a server using "rsync --archive --hard-links --verbose --delete /mnt/ ." for each iso image and target directory to preserve hard links, disable the RHN plugin by editing /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf, and create the following to go in /etc/yum.repos.d: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # RHEL.repo # [server] name=RHEL-$releasever - Server baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/Server gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [server-cl] name=RHEL-$releasever - Server Cluster baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/Cluster gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [server-vt] name=RHEL-$releasever - Server VT baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/VT gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [server-cs] name=RHEL-$releasever - Server Cluster Storage baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/ClusterStorage gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [server-supp] name=RHEL-$releasever - Server Supplementary baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/supp gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/server/$basearch/supp/RPM-GPG-KEY [client] name=RHEL-$releasever - Client baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/Client gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [client-ws] name=RHEL-$releasever - Client Workstation baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/Workstation gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [client-dt] name=RHEL-$releasever - Client Desktop baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/Desktop gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY # looks just like [server-vt] [client-vt] name=RHEL-$releasever - Client VT baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/VT gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/os/RPM-GPG-KEY [client-supp] name=RHEL-$releasever - Client Supplementary baseurl=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/supp gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///raid/RH/EL/$releasever/client/$basearch/supp/RPM-GPG-KEY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Obviously, change "/raid/RH/EL..." to your preferred mount point and directory structure, and enable/disable repos as desired. Can now use yum or pirut to add groups or packages (KDE, Multimedia, Evolution, OpenOffice, ...). Could use a similar approach with mounted DVDs. Of course this doesn't help with RHN updates. Will have to wait for a Red Hat fix there. Phil _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
