On 4/27/2010 9:36, Tim Edwards wrote:
> On 27/04/10 16:16, Faye Gibbins wrote:
>> Yes but we use the mdp devolved layer and I've asked if their repos are
>> yum enabled and they say no.
>>
>> So unless my LM say's I can create a yum archive I'm not sure what else
>> I can do.
>>
> Can you get them to agree to at least temporarily let you use yum
> against the official Scientificlinux repos on the web?
>
> If not you're out of luck unfortunately. We used to have no access to
> yum repositories from our DMZ machines and it was very painful getting
> something installed with just rpm.
>
> One tip though, assuming you have a machine with a working yum (your
> desktop maybe?), is to do a 'yum whatprovides mkfontdir', where
> mkfontdir is what it complains is missing. That way you can see exactly
> which RPM is needed.

Is the problem that you can't use yum at all or that you just can't use 
yum for a specific set of rpms?  If it's the second then you could 
always try ``yum localinstall'' so yum can sort out the dependencies 
that *are* in SL's repos.