topic Re: want to know everything about repomd in Operating System - Linux

want to know everything about repomd

Hanry Zhou — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:42:23 GMT

I wanted to find documents about repomd, from top to bottom, what is this all about, how to setup...
Where I can find them? I know this has something to do whith up2date.

Thanks,

Re: want to know everything about repomd

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:32:36 GMT

Shalom Hanry,

As far as I can tell you can't get it from up2date.

You can install yum on your system and get it that way.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/redhat/el4/i386/yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.html<
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Re: want to know everything about repomd

Marek Mahut — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:12:09 GMT

Hello Henry,

here is some interesting links about yum repos:

* http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
* http://sial.org/howto/yum/
* http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO-5.html
* http://www.charlescurley.com/yum/repository.html
* http://dotancohen.com/howto/yum_repro.php

and of corse man pages :)

* http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/createrepo.8.html
...

Best regards,
Marek.