[wplug] Core 6 Package Manager

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 07:11 -0400, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> Answers to questions below:
> Installing from the net is not an option.  It is on the company's
> network and network installations take a day or more.

Then your company should setup a local YUM repository.  If it has more
than a couple Fedora installs, this is just good Enterprise
Configuration Management (ECM) practice.

> This PC is used to support some legacy products developed with embedded
> Linux, so it is not real important.  The CompacFlash reader/writer is
> needed for the embedded products op sys and application.  Somewhere
> around Core 3 or 4, standard support for the USB (SDA) stopped.  I
> worked fine with RH 8.

I've never had an issue with any CF, SD, etc... support, USB, ATA (CF),
etc... since USB and other support was added.

And I've been running Red Hat since the May Day release (3.0.3) too.  ;)

> I checked in /etc/yum.repos.d and found 7 files all with references to
> the net.  I am not sure why since the previous installation of FC6 on
> this same machine would allow me to add programs from the CD.

The /etc/yum.repos.d has _always_ pointed to the net in _all_ Fedora
installations. 

What you're thinking of is the GUI program.  In earlier Fedora releases,
the Package GUI was a non-YUM based.  In newer Fedora releases, the
Package GUI is YUM based.

> (Different CD's this time).  Can these files be cleared out?

Change "enabled=0".

But that doesn't address getting from local files.  Hitting "man 5
yum.conf" we see ...

       baseurl
              Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s
              ‘repodata’ directory lives. Can be an http://, ftp://
              or  file:// URL.

I believe starting with Fedora Core 6, the YUM meta-data files are on
the CD, so you could try setting it to ...

  baseurl=file:///media/cdrecorder/Fedora/RPMS

Or similar.

> 4.something = RedHat 4.x, maybe 8 or more years ago?

Red Hat didn't add YUM until Fedora Core 1.  Before then, the Package
GUI was not YUM based.

-- Bryan

P.S.  _Never_ reinstall Linux.  It _never_ solves anything as you're
finding out.  ;)


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