[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Core 5 Package Installer

[Wayne Walker]

The list software stripped the attached tar.  

http://www.bybent.com/yum.repos.d.tar

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:57:40AM -0500, Wayne Walker wrote:
> For me it "just worked, but I'm attaching my current repo file, it's the
> latest as updated via yum.
> 
> Actually, that is a tar file of my whole yum.repos.d directory.  You may
> want to remove or disable the non-fedora files (or you may not :)
> 
> You should not need to use the CD unless you want to.  Network updates
> work fine.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:49:38AM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> > is a real pain.  I got past the "invalid baseurl for repo" problem by 
> > Googling and finding that I needed to change 
> > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-[core|extras|updates].repo to
> > 
> > baseurl=file:///media/disk
> > 
> > 
> > This works fine as long as I have a Fedora Core 5 CD mounted.  However, 
> > when I selected a package I got  "Error downloading headers".  In this 
> > case the RPM was actually on the mounted CD.  (I tried it a second time 
> > and everything worked).
> > 
> > Anyone know of a configuration which will work around this?  Something 
> > where I don't have to have a CD mounted and will tell me "CD n needed" 
> > like the install does?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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