Hey Guys, I'm trying tirelessly to set up a yum repository FOR UPDATES (not for base, devel, etc) on our local network. I've mirrored the directory structure of a CentOS mirror online (ie rpm updates exist in /centos/3/updates/i386/RPMS and /centos/4.2/updates/i386/ and so on. Here's my problem. At first I started out trying to use yum-arch to "yummify" my repository so that the other machines on the network would know how to use the repository. That didn't end up working for me, plus I got a message that says it is deprecated and that I should instead use createrepo, which creates .xml files instead of the standard header files that yum-arch creates. So I installed createrepo and generated the .xml files. I have an ftp server set up for on my repository box. Long story short, my yum clients are looking for header files at ftp://location/to/my/rpms/headers/headers.info (the "old" way) while createrepo creates an .xml file in /path/to/my/rpms/repodata/repmd.xml. OK so first question is: how can I get yum to work with my repo? Then I guess we'll go from there. Any insight / advice would be greatly appreciated! thanks a bunch, Andrew
Did you take a look at these howtos? http://www.tqmcube.com/repo.php http://dotancohen.com/howto/yum_repro.php http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/22/1718242 http://www.charlescurley.com/yum/repository.html
Hi Falko, Thanks for the links. I have been following the the first one (http://www.tqmcube.com/repo.php) and came across a problem when doing a rsync. Error is.... rsync: failed to connect to distro.ibiblio.org: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(98) Looking at the output of /var/log/messages, I see this... May 23 08:29:30 skylab kernel: [UDP reject] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.8.100 DST=192.168.8.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=32801 DPT=137 LEN=58 May 23 08:29:31 skylab kernel: [TCP reject] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.8.100 DST=152.2.210.109 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=19475 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=60706 DPT=873 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 May 23 08:29:34 skylab kernel: [TCP reject] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.8.100 DST=152.2.210.109 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=19476 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=60706 DPT=873 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Can you help? - I'm a new to Linux. Thanks Quinton
