On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 00:46 +0530, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote: > 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
hi, I did pretty much the same thing.. I did have one confusion though, the repo i made also had updates (a lot of them), how would i know which files from the DVD neednt be put into the repo since their updates are already present? Im going to be making a repo with the Unity spin as a base system. Will be easier (less updates). Thanks for the other info, regards, Ankur _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
