Linux-Local-Yum-Up2date-Repo

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Yum/Up2date Local Repositories

Steps to create a local yum/up2date repository using RHEL iso images.

Contents 1 Download the images 2 Creating repository for RHEL 5 3 Creating repository for RHEL 4 4 Configure Apache 5 Configure Clients - RHEL 5 6 Configure Clients - RHEL4

Download the images

Download the ISO, Copy to the server & mount it to a folder

For eg. /var/www/localrepo/rhel4-x64/iso

For this to persist across reboots, add this to /etc/fstab

/var/www/localrepo/RHEL4.7-x86_64-ES-DVD.iso  /var/www/localrepo/rhel4-x64/iso iso9660	loop	0 0

Creating repository for RHEL 5

Download the following from fedora EPEL. The package versions may differ. You can remove these packages after creating the repository

python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-0.3.el4.noarch.rpm
createrepo-0.4.4-0.4.el4.noarch.rpm

Change to the directory above the iso directory

cd /var/www/localrepo/rhel4-x64
createrepo

This will create the following

repodata/
repodata/filelists.xml.gz  
repodata/other.xml.gz  
repodata/primary.xml.gz  
repodata/repomd.xml

Creating repository for RHEL 4

Download & Install the following. Dag weirs or similar repositories will have these packages. You can remove these packages after creating the repository

python-sqlite-1.0.1-1.2.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm   
sqlite-2.8.16-1.2.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm  
yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.rpm

Then do the following

cd /var/www/localrepo/rhel4-x64
yum-arch

This will create a headers directory, header.info inside it and other RPM headers

Configure Apache

On the server that is serving the repository configure Apache by creating a vhost similar to this. Since we are serving a RHEL repo, allow access only from the servers that need this

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localrepo
    ServerAdmin root@dr-index
    DocumentRoot /var/www/localrepo
    ErrorLog logs/localrepo-error_log
    CustomLog logs/localrepo-access_log common

    # Since we are serving a RHEL repo, allow access only from their servers
    <Directory /var/www/localrepo>
	Order Deny,Allow
	Deny from all
	Allow from <network> #eg 192.168.202.0/255.255.255.0
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Configure Clients - RHEL 5

On the server that needs this repo.

Add the Repo server IP to /etc/hosts 192.168.XXX.XXX localrepo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/localrepo.repo

[RH51-Server]
  name= RHEL 5.1 Local Repository
  baseurl=http://localrepo/rhel4-x64
  enabled=1

Check

yum list
yum repolist

Configure Clients - RHEL4

On the server that needs this repo.

Add the Repo server IP to /etc/hosts 192.168.206.173 localrepo

Edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

Comment this line

up2date default
becomes
#up2date default

Also add this line on the equivalent for the repository you are building

eg.

yum localrepo http://localrepo/rhel4-x64

Test

up2date --showall