Thursday, September 20, 2012

Creating local yum repository on RHEL 6.2

1. Mount the DVD or ISO
#mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass,domain=abc.com //servername/share /mnt
#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
#mount -o ro,loop redhat.iso /mnt

2. Copy files
#mkdir -p /var/repo/rhel6
#cp -r /mnt/* /var/repo/rhel6/
#cd /var/repo/rhel6/Packages
#rpm -i createrepo...
#cd /var/repo
#createrepo .

3. Create file local.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/
#cd  /etc/yum.repos.d/
#touch local.repo

[local]
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - DVD
baseurl=file:///var/repo


Save and exit
Try to install a package:
#yum install httpd

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