Repository configuration for older Fedora releases.

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Note: The Fedora releases here, Fedora Core 1 through Fedora 9, are no longer supported or maintained, so they do not receive bug fixes or security updates. We do not recommend using these releases any more. To obtain the latest, supported version of Fedora, please refer to the main download page, http://get.fedoraproject.org.

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It has occurred to me that this guide may be mis-interpreted as a guide on how to install any software you want to install for older releases of Fedora. It isn't. It is about being able to use yum for these older versions when the original repositories are long since closed. If you want the latest and greatest software packages you will likely need to update to a current release of Fedora.

I've spent the last day or so installing every Fedora release since Fedora Core 1, excluding Fedora 11, on a computer I had laying around. My goal was to figure out how to get yum to work despite the fact that the stock repositories are long gone in most cases.

I was motivated by the fact that the yum questions are never ending here at Fedora Forum and the question of how to make yum work for these older versions of Fedora seem to be quite common. The usual response is to install the newest and greatest Fedora. That's fine, but there are cases where this is just not possible. I'll outline separately what I've done for each release.

Thank you to forum members Stoat and Pablo Two. Their response in another thread to a member who was asking how to make yum work for an older version of Fedora was what got me thinking about this so I took a que from them and expanded on it

Here's what I've got so far:

Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow)
This version of Fedora uses a file called /etc/yum.conf (as they all do) but the repository configuration is done in this file, unlike later versions of Fedora where there are separate .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d. The stock /etc/yum.conf looks like this:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
 
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
 
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
 
#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever

Under the section [base], comment out the baseurl line and add the line that I've highlighted in red. Do the same for the baseurl line under the [updates-released] section. Once done, try the command yum check-update. It should work just fine.

You will only get one update, however, you should be able to install any software that is available through these repositories. You could consider adding other repositories if you need additional software.




Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang)
This version of Fedora uses a file called /etc/yum.conf (as they all do) but the repository configuration is done in this file, unlike later versions of Fedora where there are separate .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d. The stock /etc/yum.conf looks like this:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

#[development]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/

To make the changes to this file and get yum working start by commenting out the first baseurl line, the one two lines below [base], by putting a hash mark (#) in front of the line and then replace it with this line,

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

Now, for the second section, comment out the second baseurl line, the one two lines below [updates-released], by putting a hash mark (#) in front of the line and then replace it with this line,

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/

Save the file and exit whatever text editor you were using. Now try the command yum check-update. It should work and there should be no errors. It worked for me and I was able to fully update my Fedora Core 2 system.

If there are errors check for typos. Also, try the urls in your web browser. If the url works there it should work for yum. If it doesn't work in the browser there may be a temporary availability issue. Try again later.

You will only get one update, however, you should be able to install any software that is available through these repositories. You could consider adding other repositories if you need additional software.

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Fedora Core 3 (Heidelberg)

From this release forward we'll be working with the files in the folder /etc/yum.repos.d. Fedora Core 3 has 2 files in that folder that we're interested in, fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo.

Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the first baseurl line, the one that is two lines below [base]. Then add this line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

The edited file should look like this

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Save and exit.

Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the first baseurl line, the one two lines below [updates-released] and add this line above it.

baseurl=http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/

The edited file should look like this

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Once you make the changes to these two files yum should magically begin working. Yum update should work. You will be able to update your Fedora Core 3 system in accordance with the last updates available in these repositories. There will be no further updates. You will also be able to install any additional software that these repositories provide.

Fedora Core 4 (Stentz)

Working with three files in the folder /etc/yum.repos.d. Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo. Comment out the baseurl line two lines below [base]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

The edited file should look like this

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Save and exit the editor.


Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo. Comment out the baseurl line that is two lines below [updates-released]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/

The edited file should look like this.

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Save and exit the editor.

Open the file /etc.yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo. Comment out the baseurl line that is two lines below [extras]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/extras/4/i386/

The edited file should look like this.

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/extras/4/i386/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

Save and exit the editor. Now try the command yum check-update. It should work and you should be able to update your Fedora Core 4 system in accordance with the last updates available in these repositories. There will be no further updates. You will also be able to install any additional software that these repositories provide.

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Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux)

Again we're working with three files for this release, all found in the /etc/yum.repos.d folder.

fedora-core.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-extras.repo

Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is two lines below [core]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

The file should now look like this.

[core]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[core-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[core-source]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Source
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/source/SRPMS/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

Save and exit the editor.

Next, open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is below [updates] and add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

The edited file should look like this

[updates]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-source]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Updates Source
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Save and edit the editor.

Finally, open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is below [extras] and add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/

Save and exit the editor. That's it. Now try the command yum check-update. It should work and you should be able to yum update your Fedora Core 5 system in accordance with the last updates available in these repositories. There will be no further updates. You will also be able to install any additional software that these repositories provide.

Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

Again we're working with three files for this release, all found in the /etc/yum.repos.d folder.

fedora-core.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-extras.repo

Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is two lines below [core]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

The file should now look like this

[core]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[core-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[core-source]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

Save and edit the editor.

Next, open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is below [updates] and add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

Save and edit the editor. The file should now look like this

[updates]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-debug-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[updates-source]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Updates Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Finally, open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is below [extras] and add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/

Save and edit the editor. The edited file should look like this

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

[extras-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

[extras-source]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

Save and exit the editor. That's it. Now try the command yum check-update. It should work and you should be able to yum update your Fedora Core 6 system in accordance with the last updates available in these repositories. There will be no further updates. You will also be able to install any additional software that these repositories provide.

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Fedora 7 (Moonshine)
We're working with just two files for this release, both found in the /etc/yum.repos.d folder.

fedora.repo
fedora-updates.repo

Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is two lines below [fedora]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os/

Next, open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo with the text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is below [updates] and add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

Save and exit the editor. That's it. Now try the command yum check-update. It should work and you should be able to yum update your Fedora 7 system in accordance with the last updates available in these repositories. There will be no further updates. You will also be able to install any additional software that these repositories provide.

It does appear that Livna still has a lot of software for Fedora 7. See http://www.mjmwired.net for setting up Livna.
It does appear that FreshRPMs is also available for Fedora 7. http://ayo.freshrpms.net/

Fedora 8 (Werewolf)
We're working with just three files for this release, one of which doesn't exist until you run the first round of updates. They are all found in the /etc/yum.repos.d folder.

fedora.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-updates-newkey.repo

Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo with your favorite text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is two lines below [fedora]. Then add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Fedora/$basearch/os/

Next, open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo with the text editor. Comment out the baseurl line that is below [updates] and add the following line above it.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

The fedora-updates-newkey repository file does not exist by default on a new installation of Fedora 8. It is created during the first round of updates. Once that round of updates if finished make the following change. Open the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-newkey.repo. Comment out the existing baseurl line and add the following.

baseurl=http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch.newkey/

Save and exit the editor. That's it. Now try the command yum check-update. It should work and you should be able to yum update your Fedora 8 system in accordance with the last updates available in these repositories. There will be no further updates. You will also be able to install any additional software that these repositories provide.

Fedora 9 (Sulphur)

There are no changes needed to the repositories for Fedora 9 at this time. The stock repos are still working so you should be able to get a basic install with the last released updates.

Jan 4, 2010
Guess it's time to do some more writing ...

Jan 5, 2010
Just checking this morning and the normal repositories seem to still be available, however, I believe that the rpmfusion repositories are empty and have probably been moved to a location that I haven't yet discovered.

Fedora 10 (Cambridge)

Fedora 12 was released mid-November 2009. This makes Fedora 10 EOL around mid-December 2010 according to Fedora's EOL policy.

I think I'm done here for now. As far as I can tell, you should be able to update any version of Fedora at least once with a minimum of work in terms of making changes to the repo files. If you want to take this further, do a little research on third party repositories, figure out how to add them to your system, and you will be able to install additional software provided by these third party repos.

I'm opening this thread to all members of the forum. Please don't use it to ask questions about yum, but feel free to tell me about any errors that I may have made or, by all means, tell us about how you are running an EOL release and how you handle your own repositories.

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Using the DVD ISO file as a local repository.

Using the information found here, http://www.city-fan.org/tips/SubsetRepositoriesFedora10, I've been able to use the DVD ISO file, not the disk itself, as a local repository for a Fedora 10 system. You will need to have a few GB of free space on the target drive for this to work. What I'll do here is simply outline the steps that I've followed to get this working while referring to that article. Some of the content here has been copied/pasted from the link.

You can use sudo, su -c or log in to the terminal as root to run these commands. All paths are relative to the actual path names that I used on my system. You can deviate from these paths as much as you want but you need to be consistent with the path names throughout this operation.

Create the folder that the ISO file will be copied to.

su -c 'mkdir -p /media/sata500gb/distros/f10/os/i386/iso/'

Copy the actual ISO file to the newly created destination folder. Remember to adjust the source path to match the actual location of the ISO file, be it on a hard disk somewhere, a networked location or the actual install DVD. If you look closely you can see that my source file is in a separate folder on the same drive that I'm copying to.

su -c 'cp /media/sata500gb/iso/fedora10/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso /media/sata500gb/distros/f10/os/i386/iso/'

Create a mount point so that the ISO images can be loopback-mounted:

su -c 'mkdir /media/sata500gb/distros/f10/os/i386/dvd/'

Edit /etc/fstab and an entry for the DVD image to get it mounted at boot time:

/media/sata500gb/distros/f10/os/i386/iso/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso /media/sata500gb/distros/f10/os/i386/dvd iso9660 _netdev,ro,loop,fscontext=system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0 0 0

It should now be possible to mount the ISO image(s) by issuing the command:

su -c 'service netfs start'

Now create a .repo file in the /etc/yum.repos/d folder. I named mine fedora-dvd.repo.

su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-dvd.repo'

Add content to the file. The following is the exact content of my file. Yours will of course need to follow the path name that you've been using.

[fedora-local]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch (local)
baseurl=file:///media/SATA500GB/distros/f$releasever/os/$basearch/dvd
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
metadata_expire=-1
cost=500

You should now be able to test your setup by installing some package. Packages on the media will be shown as coming from fedora-local and other packages will be shown as coming from fedora.

The command yum repolist now shows fedora-local as well as the usual repos.

repo id repo name status
fedora-local Fedora 10 - i386 (local) enabled: 2,220
repof10 RepoF10 10 - i386 - repof10 enabled: 11,416
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Free enabled: 324
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Free - Updates enabled: 709
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Nonfree enabled: 142
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 10 - Nonfree - Updates enabled: 517
updates Fedora 10 - i386 - Updates enabled: 5,160
repolist: 20,488

The command yum list available | grep fedora-local now shows many packages available from the local repo. The list is long so here's the last few shown.

xmlrpc-c.i386                    1.14.8-2.fc10         fedora-local             
xmlrpc3-client.noarch            3.0-2.9.fc10          fedora-local             
xmlrpc3-common.noarch            3.0-2.9.fc10          fedora-local             
xom.noarch                       1.0-3.5.fc10          fedora-local             
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch      7.2-6.fc9             fedora-local             
xorg-x11-util-macros.i386        1.1.6-2.fc10          fedora-local             
xorg-x11-xtrans-devel.i386       1.2.1-2.fc10          fedora-local             
xpp2.noarch                      2.1.10-6.2.fc10       fedora-local             
xpp3.noarch                      1.1.3.8-1.2.fc10      fedora-local             
xrestop.i386                     0.4-5.fc10            fedora-local             
zisofs-tools.i386                1.0.8-3.fc9           fedora-local             
zsh.i386                         4.3.4-8.fc9           fedora-local

I don't take any credit for this local repository method. All I've tried to do here is to outline my success with this method on my system for the benefit of others. The result of a few minutes work is potentially a great savings in bandwidth usage and time. If this is something that is of interest to you you are probably best off going directly to the linked page and following along there.

[glennzo]

Reserved for future use.

[mikemike86]

You sir, have just saved me from all sorts of ballache. x

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by mikemike86

You sir, have just saved me from all sorts of ballache. x

Yeah, I know. I enjoyed the challenge of trying to figure this stuff out. I maintain that there is no reason that someone can't use older versions of Fedora is they choose to.

[mikemike86]

Well I can't update my version of FC6 due to software licenses, I'm sure there are plenty of others in the same boat.

Thanks again

[glennzo]

You're welcome. I guess you can only go just so far with the older releases..... Then you probably need to upgrade.

[mikemike86]

Well I'm still struggling to update PHP to >5.2, which is what the original task was. I though I'd be able to 'yum update php' once yum was working. I was wrong

[glennzo]

Found something here, http://rpm.pbone.net/. If what you are looking for is there you could manually download it or add the repository and use yum. I'm betting that there will be dependency errors....

[mikemike86]

i've given up, i'm updating

[stoat]

Originally Posted by mikemike86

Well I'm still struggling to update PHP to >5.2, which is what the original task was. I though I'd be able to 'yum update php' once yum was working. I was wrong

That's right. Here is the version of that in the Fedora Core 6 updates archive...

http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub...7.fc6.i386.rpm

Updating to the final versions of packages in the updates archives is probably all anyone could hope for with the obsolete Fedora versions. If it's not too late already, you might be able to compile a later version of that package from source. But that also might drive you straightly and swiftly into madness.

[mikemike86]

Sounds above my head. Plesk has decided it doesn't want to play ball now either and won't even let me access any of my access data (obviously I still have root). Time for a re-image me thinks.