On 4/27/2010 9:36, Tim Edwards wrote:
On 27/04/10 16:16, Faye Gibbins wrote:
Yes but we use the mdp devolved layer and I've asked if their repos are
yum enabled and they say no.
So unless my LM say's I can create a yum archive I'm not sure what else
I can do.
Can you get them to agree to at least temporarily let you use yum
against the official Scientificlinux repos on the web?
If not you're out of luck unfortunately. We used to have no access to
yum repositories from our DMZ machines and it was very painful getting
something installed with just rpm.
One tip though, assuming you have a machine with a working yum (your
desktop maybe?), is to do a 'yum whatprovides mkfontdir', where
mkfontdir is what it complains is missing. That way you can see exactly
which RPM is needed.
Is the problem that you can't use yum at all or that you just can't use
yum for a specific set of rpms? If it's the second then you could
always try ``yum localinstall'' so yum can sort out the dependencies
that *are* in SL's repos.
