So I did a minimal install of centos 7 vm guest just to find out it did not install perl. Since as of right now I have no properly functioning network on that machine (different issue; we can talk about that in another post), I went for the next best thing: install CD. I grabbed the CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1611.iso CD (around 8GB), attached it to the guest, and mounted it on /mnt. Then I edited the cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo # CentOS-Media.repo # # This repo can be used with mounted DVD media, verify the mount point for # CentOS-7. You can use this repo and yum to install items directly off the # DVD ISO that we release. # # To use this repo, put in your DVD and use it with the other repos too: # yum --enablerepo=c7-media [command] # # or for ONLY the media repo, do this: # # yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media [command] [c7-media] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///mnt/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 I then run yum clean all and then decided to look for perl only on the cd repo, i.e. yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media search perl It gave me back the pcre package, which is already installed. I did check the /mnt.Packages dir and there are plenty of perl-related packages including itself. yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media list all shows only installed packages, some of which are shown (?) to have been installed from c7-media.
On 02/23/2017 05:24 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:> So I did a minimal install of centos 7 vm guest just to find out it did not > install perl. Since as of right now I have no properly functioning network > on that machine (different issue; we can talk about that in another post), > I went for the next best thing: install CD. > > I grabbed the CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1611.iso CD (around 8GB), attached > it to the guest, and mounted it on /mnt. Then I edited the > > cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo > # CentOS-Media.repo > # > # This repo can be used with mounted DVD media, verify the mount point for > # CentOS-7. You can use this repo and yum to install items directly off > the > # DVD ISO that we release. > # > # To use this repo, put in your DVD and use it with the other repos too: > # yum --enablerepo=c7-media [command] > # > # or for ONLY the media repo, do this: > # > # yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media [command] > > [c7-media] > name=CentOS-$releasever - Media > baseurl=file:///mnt/ > gpgcheck=1 > enabled=0 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 > > I then run > > yum clean all > > and then decided to look for perl only on the cd repo, i.e. > > yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media search perl > > It gave me back the pcre package, which is already installed. I did check > the /mnt.Packages dir and there are plenty of perl-related packages > including itself. > > yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media list all > > shows only installed packages, some of which are shown (?) to have been > installed from c7-media.what does : ls /mnt/ show .. do you see the tree (directories, trees) listed here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/ try yum list <disable and enable stuff> perl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20170223/bb2c45c2/attachment-0001.sig>
The tree look similar. When I try the yum list perl I am told "no matching packages to list." Isn't that what the files in repodata are for? On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:> On 02/23/2017 05:24 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > So I did a minimal install of centos 7 vm guest just to find out it did > not > > install perl. Since as of right now I have no properly functioning > network > > on that machine (different issue; we can talk about that in another > post), > > I went for the next best thing: install CD. > > > > I grabbed the CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1611.iso CD (around 8GB), > attached > > it to the guest, and mounted it on /mnt. Then I edited the > > > > cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo > > # CentOS-Media.repo > > # > > # This repo can be used with mounted DVD media, verify the mount point > for > > # CentOS-7. You can use this repo and yum to install items directly off > > the > > # DVD ISO that we release. > > # > > # To use this repo, put in your DVD and use it with the other repos too: > > # yum --enablerepo=c7-media [command] > > # > > # or for ONLY the media repo, do this: > > # > > # yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media [command] > > > > [c7-media] > > name=CentOS-$releasever - Media > > baseurl=file:///mnt/ > > gpgcheck=1 > > enabled=0 > > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 > > > > I then run > > > > yum clean all > > > > and then decided to look for perl only on the cd repo, i.e. > > > > yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media search perl > > > > It gave me back the pcre package, which is already installed. I did check > > the /mnt.Packages dir and there are plenty of perl-related packages > > including itself. > > > > yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c7-media list all > > > > shows only installed packages, some of which are shown (?) to have been > > installed from c7-media. > > what does : > > ls /mnt/ > > show .. do you see the tree (directories, trees) listed here: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/ > > try yum list <disable and enable stuff> perl > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >