Bug 139077

Summary:	Add yum metadata to DVD iso images
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Phil Schaffner <philip.r.schaffner>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	matthias, nigel, scop
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Description Phil Schaffner 2004-11-12 20:24:58 UTC

Description of problem:
Consider adding yum metadata (createrepo, and perhaps yum-arch - for
FC2 updates) to the DVD iso.  The image (or for that matter the
physical media) could then be mounted  as a local yum [os] repo,
accessed as a file:/ URL.  Would save user's disk space and
everybody's network bandwidth.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC4 DVD iso image

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mount DVD
2. Specify as yum [os] repo
3. yum install somepackage
  
Actual results:
Fails due to lack of metadata.

Expected results:
Could run yum install of new packages from local image.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2004-11-15 21:59:34 UTC

Not likely to happen anytime soon, but I'll keep it on the TODO list.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2004-12-03 19:18:52 UTC

*** Bug 134052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Terrel Shumway 2005-02-25 19:32:06 UTC

workaround:
mount the image
create a new directory for the local repo: 
  mkdir myrepo
  cd myrepo
create symlinks to all of the rpms
  find /media/dvd -name '*.rpm' >allrpms
  cat allrpms |(for x in read; do ln -s $x $(basename $x);done) 
create the repodata
  createrepo .

Comment 4 Elliot Lee 2005-04-26 19:00:16 UTC

*** Bug 151432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Ville Skyttä 2005-04-26 19:23:40 UTC

I'd like to add that making the repodata comps enabled would be a nice bonus.

Comment 6 Matthias Saou 2006-02-16 13:16:34 UTC

Update : in FC5 test releases, "repodata" is present on the DVDs AFAICS...

Comment 7 Phil Schaffner 2006-02-19 02:33:25 UTC

So - haven't been following closely of late.  Looks like resolution RAWHIDE
should get this one off the books.