a feature request: offline pkg installation from media

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 19:46:44 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 20:38 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Here my mindflashes:
> 
> 1.) It may be nice to have a frontend for createrepo to create a
> repository on a media
> for offline installation/updates.

by frontend, do you mean graphical tool?  createrepo is a frontend to
itself, and has the ability to create repodata on media.  It's how we
create the repodata on CDs/DVDs.

> 
> 2.) yum should be able to unterstand uri likes file://...

It does.


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