yum problem with local repositories

[David Timms]

Mohammed El-Afifi wrote:
> I'm using fedora 7, 64-bit edition. I'm using yum version 3.2.0. I've added a repository for the fedora 7 installation DVD by adding the following files to the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo:
> [DVD]
> name=Fedora $releasever - DVD
> baseurl=file:///media/Fedora%207%20x86_64%20DVD
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GP
> G-KEY
> When I try to install any development package from this repository(e.g. qt-devel), yum fetches the package and asks for confirmation to download it. After I confirm, it echos the following error messages:
> Downloading Packages:
> Then, I get the following error messages:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 172, in main
>     base.doTransaction()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 302, in doTransaction
>     problems = self.downloadPkgs(downloadpkgs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 798, in downloadPkgs
>     remote_pkgs.sort(mediasort)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 747, in mediasort
>     a = a.getDiscNum()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 485, in getDiscNum
>     return int(fragid)
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
> Is this a bug in this version of yum?
Maybe yum update yum to get the current yum version first.

> Or am I just missing something else?
yum -d 15 {whatever} can give some useful info on what is going wrong. 
Without that info, my guess is:
If you look at the dvd's /repodata, in particular the repomd.xml, and 
other referred files, you see:
<location xml:base="media://{digits.digits} href=repodata/{a file} />

So it tries to look for a thing called media://digits... to find the 
actual rpm's.

If this is the case, it wont just be *-devel-*.rpm that are a problem, 
but all files from the repo.

I resolved this myself sometime ago by mounting the dvd, then running 
createrepo {yum-utils} one directory higher in the hierarchy.

Let us know what you find.

DaveT.