Connie Sieh wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
I've mounted my DVD ISO and can access the readme at
http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os/README
The instructions for setting up the install tree (just above INSTALL)
were correct for previous releases, but are now probably wrong: one does
not merge repos that way!.
I will look at the README and fix it.
However, for DVD images the error does not matter. I have set up my
install tree by "mount -o loop," equivalent to copying the image as
described in that readme.
When I try to "yum install" from the tree, this is what happens:
10:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo yum install libnjb-devel libmtp-devel
libid3tag-devel
Password:
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libid3tag-devel to pack into transaction set.
media://1178298547.683145/libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm: [Errno
4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
Trying other mirror.
Error: failed to retrieve libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from
sl-base
error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
10:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
On looking at the file SL/repodata/primary.xml.gz
I see ="media://1178298547.683145"
href="libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm"/><format><rpm:license>GPL</rpm:license><rpm:vendor>Scientific
I'm using this repo definition:
10:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/install.repo
[sl-base]
name=SL 5 base
#aseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/$basearch/SL
baseurl=http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os/SL
debug=4
#mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-50.txt
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
10:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
What might be wrong, and how do I fix it?
media is a newer feature of createrepo which is used to determine what
media a rpm is on. I guess it is not really needed for a dvd image as
there is only 1 media. But it is needed for the cd images. In this
first SL5 release I took the cd images and made a dvd out of it. I will
research if I can do this differently in the future.
Ah, does this mean I can't just mount the DVD on a loopback drive and
serve it up? That's what I am trying to do. I'd rather not spend another
few Gbytes of disk on this:-(
The Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7 have the same kind of URLs. Both lack the
README or anything similar, afaics.
I have CentOS5 CD images, not DVD, and they also have the media thing,
and no README.
I think I'll ask a related question on RH's Anaconda list.
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Cheers
John
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