[Linux-users] FC yum

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, vu pham wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 21:44 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> >yum search $package
>> 
>> This is fine if one knows the package name.  Often I've found
>> that I know the name of a program or library I want, not what
>> package it's in.
>> 
>> My solution to this is that we maintain local mirrors of the
>> installation and update directories, and I wrote a script that
>> uses ``rpm -qpl $rpmfile'' to extract the component names in the
>> script, and build an index that I can grep to find the related
>> packages.
>> 
>Bill, could you please explain a little bit more on "maintain local
>mirrors of the installation and update directories" ? If this package
>has never been installed/updated, how do I know its name ?

>For example, I want to install a radius server on my FC7, how do I know
>which radius server packages that FC7 has ? In this case, I do not know
>the package name.

The simplest way is probably to either search the installation media
directory or to copy it into a directory on a system.  Make a directory,
say /centos/4.5/i386, then mount each CD or DVD image and copy it to that
directory.  One could also do a loopback mount of a DVD iso which wouldn't
require the disk space.

The RPM packages would then be in /centos/4.5/i386/CentOS/RPMS so a command
``ls -1 /centos/4.5/i386/CentOS/RPMS/*radius*'' would give you a list of
the freeradius RPMs available.

BTW:  We've been using freeradius for since 1998 or so with no problems.

Bill
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