CentOS - Nov 2007 - CentOS 5.0 - Yum install using the install cd's as the RPM source

What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the
six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside
internet connection?

Debian based distributions are able to use the package manager to search for and
install from the CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent.

Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from a CD with:

        mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
        cd /media/cdrom/CentOS
        rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpm

Yum has such good dependency checking I'd like to know of a way to use it if
possible.


========Keith

Keith,
--- Keith Christian <keithchristian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is the mechanism or procedure for installing
> additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's
> using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside
> internet connection?
> 
> Debian based distributions are able to use the
> package manager to search for and install from the
> CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent.
> 
> Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from
> a CD with:
> 
>         mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
>         cd /media/cdrom/CentOS
>         rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpm
> 
> Yum has such good dependency checking I'd like to
> know of a way to use it if possible.
> 
Checkout the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo

there are several pre-set mount points for your ISO
mounts. For my DVD I use /mnt/repo

I see above you have the right mount for an ISO. Then
to point YUM to your media repo use
#yum install SomeRPM --disablerepo=\*
--enablerepo=c5-media

if you want to ban external access, the disablerepo
token is the key.

-- 
Mark

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----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Pryor <tlviewer at yahoo.com>
To: centos at centos.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:51:56 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 - Yum install using the install cd's as the
RPM source

Keith,
--- Keith Christian <keithchristian at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is the mechanism or procedure for installing
> additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's
> using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside
> internet connection?
> 
> Debian based distributions are able to use the
> package manager to search for and install from the
> CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent.
> 
> Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from
> a CD with:
> 
>        mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
>        cd /media/cdrom/CentOS
>        rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpm
> 
> Yum has such good dependency checking I'd like to
> know of a way to use it if possible.
> 
Checkout the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo

there are several pre-set mount points for your ISO
mounts. For my DVD I use /mnt/repo

I see above you have the right mount for an ISO. Then
to point YUM to your media repo use
#yum install SomeRPM --disablerepo=\*
--enablerepo=c5-media

if you want to ban external access, the disablerepo
token is the key.

-- 
Mark


Hi Mark,  Thanks for the info, I'll put it in my hints file.

=========Keith