a feature request: offline pkg installation from media
 

I followed the in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Ideas
and submitted this page
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MediaRepos

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Muayyad AlSadi schrieb:
> I followed the in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Ideas and submitted
> this page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MediaRepos
>
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.

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

3.) It shoulb be able to put i yum.repo file on a media and specified
this file as

# yum --repo <repofile> ...

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt
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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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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:


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.


If you want to see how to make a repo it's a pretty simple process and
documented here:


http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RepoCreate


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Seth Vidal schrieb:
>> 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.
>
Yes
> If you want to see how to make a repo it's a pretty simple process
> and documented here:
>
> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/RepoCreate
>
After I have read this page, I sure that yum support file:// uri. But
it may be nice, if you may
able to specifed relative pathes, so we have the follow file layout:

<mount point>
!
!-----------------> yum.repo
1
------------------> <repo dir>

in the yum.repo file you have a reletive refernce to <repo dir>

If yum run the relas base uri may be build be the path of the mount point
and the relative bas uri specification from the yum.repo file.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt
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Muayyad AlSadi wrote:

I followed the in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Ideas
and submitted this page
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MediaRepos


Is this really a new feature? I could have sworn this was already
possible. In fact I seem to remember systems installed from live CDs
refusing to install any packages from /any/ source if the media wasn't
in the drive as of a few releases back, due to the media being
configured as a package source.


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> 2.) yum should be able to unterstand uri likes file://...
that's something different
take this scenario, you have 3 installation CDs
KDE on CD2 needs libfoo on CD3
no createrepo or file:// could help you them

and yum API already support what I request, it's called media://
but package kit does not support it

> It may be nice to have a frontend for createrepo to create a
yes I made a hal/dbus/pynotify that creates a file in
/etc/yum.repos.d/ having file:// that points to the inserted media and
remove it when the media is ejected

but that is not the real solution

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> I could have sworn this was already possible.

this **was** possible with F8 and its package manager which is dropped
and replaced with package kit

no other package manager support this feature now
take my word, I have tried them all GUI and CLI (smart, yumex,
apt-get, synaptic ...etc.)

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Muayyad AlSadi schrieb:

> that's something different take
this scenario, you have 3

> installation CDs KDE on CD2 needs libfoo on CD3 no createrepo or

> file:// could help you them

>

I think this scenario may get difficuilt because yo want to avoid

that the used allway change the CD in the CD-ROM drive.

> and yum API already support what
I request, it's called media://

> but package kit does not support it

That sound interesting.



Best Regards:



Jochen Schmitt

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