RHEL Repo Setup

Mbm329 05:21, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Setup Repository on Central Server (Server)

• Ensure you have enough space in a location to hold the ISO image

$ df -P /var/downloads
Filesystem            1024-blocks   Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-dnld     5063712 141248   4665236       3% /var/downloads

• Download latest ISO image

• Mount the ISO via loopback device to mountpoint under a webserver document-root.

# mkdir -p /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/base/RPMS
# echo '/var/downloads/rhel-5.5.iso /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/base/RPMS iso9660 loop=/dev/loop0 0 0' >>/etc/fstab
# mount /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/base/RPMS

• Create directories to store updates to packages for patching and revision updates

# mkdir -p /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/updates/RPMS /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/local/RPMS

• Create a repository one level up from the mountpoint using the repodata group file packaged on the ISO image

# createrepo -g /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/base/RPMS/Server/repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/base

• We do the same for the updates and local repositories, locating the repodata one level higher

# createrepo /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/updates/RPMS
# createrepo /var/www/html/rhel_repos/5.5/x86_64/local/RPMS

Point yum to repository on nodes (Client)

• Create repo config for yum to use

# cat <<-EOF >/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel.repo
[base]
name=base
baseurl=http://example.server.com/rhel_repos/5.5/$basearch/base
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[updates]
name=updates
baseurl=http://example.server.com/rhel_repos/5.5/$basearch/updates
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[local]
name=local
baseurl=http://example.server.com/rhel_repos/5.5/$basearch/local
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

• Clear any existing metadata on client system

# yum clean all

• Check to see if the repository shows up in the list of repos

# yum repolist

• Check to see if packages show up in repository properly

# yum list available