On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, John Summerfield wrote:

> I've mounted my DVD ISO and can access the readme at
> http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os/README
>
> The instructions for setting up the install tree (just above INSTALL)
> were correct for previous releases, but are now probably wrong: one does
> not merge repos that way!.

I will look at the README and fix it.

>
> However, for DVD images the error does not matter. I have set up my
> install tree by "mount -o loop," equivalent to copying the image as
> described in that readme.
>
> When I try to "yum install" from the tree, this is what happens:
>
> 10:02 [summer@numbat ~]$ sudo yum install libnjb-devel libmtp-devel
> libid3tag-devel
> Password:
> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for libid3tag-devel to pack into transaction set.
> media://1178298547.683145/libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm: [Errno
> 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failed to retrieve libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from sl-base
> error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
> 10:02 [summer@numbat ~]$
>
> On looking at the file SL/repodata/primary.xml.gz
>
> I see ="media://1178298547.683145"
> href="libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm"/><format><rpm:license>GPL</rpm:license><rpm:vendor>Scientific
>
> I'm using this repo definition:
> 10:12 [summer@numbat ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/install.repo
> [sl-base]
> name=SL 5 base
> #aseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/$basearch/SL
> baseurl=http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os/SL
> debug=4
> #mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-50.txt
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> 10:13 [summer@numbat ~]$
>
>
> What might be wrong, and how do I fix it?
>

media is a newer feature of createrepo which is used to determine what 
media a rpm is on.  I guess it is not really needed for a dvd image as 
there is only 1 media.  But it is needed for the cd images.  In this first 
SL5 release I took the cd images and made a dvd out of it.  I will 
research if I can do this differently in the future.

-Connie Sieh

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