Getting yum to use RPMs from local disk

[A Yagi]

Anoop Chandran wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I had selected the "Customize later" option, while installing
> FC6. Now I have the dumped the rpms to my disk and want yum
> to use the rpms in local disk., rather than getting them from the
> repositories.
> 
> For eg. yum groupinstall "development tools" should start picking
> the rpms which I've dumped to the local disk.
> 
> I tried setting up a web server on local box and configring yum to use
> it. however it wasn't entirely successful.
> 
> Can this be done? Is there an easier method (other than going to
> online repositories) or am I missing any options of yum?
> 
> Regards
> Anoop

If you copied rpm files from the DVD, you do not need to run createrepo 
because the repodata directory is included.  But if you copied rpm's 
from individual CD's, then you need to create the repodata by running 
createrepo.  Either way, once you have them ready and suppose your 
repodata directory is in /pathto/fc6, add this line to the .repo file:

baseurl=file:///pathto/fc6

Note the three slashes.

Akemi