Local Yum Server (Part 2)

Local Yum Server

Step-1: Mounting the RHEL5 DVD.

Insert the RHEL5 DVD into your DVD-ROM and create a directory under the /mnt/ directory named rhel5 then mount the DVD into /mnt/rhel5/ directory.

[root@yumsrv ~]# mkdir /mnt/rhel5

[root@yumsrv ~]# mount /dev/block device name /mnt/rhel5/

Note: If you are using usb-dvd-rom then your block device name will be scd0, if your device IDE dvd-rom then your device will dvd-hdd, if else you are using SATA dvd-rom then device will be only dvd, but keep remember it that when you are working on Vmware Workstation then you have to use only cdrom.

Step-2: Copy all the files from DVD source.

Create a directory into /var/www/html/rhel5 then copy all the file from /mnt/rhel5 directory and keep into /var/www/html/rhel5 directory

[root@yumsrv ~]# mkdir /var/www/html/rhel5

[root@yumsrv ~]# cp –r /mnt/rhel5/* /var/www/html/rhel5/

Or you can directory copy /mnt/rhel5 directory without creating /var/www/html/rhel5 directory

[root@yumsrv ~]# cp –r /mnt/rhel5 /var/www/html/

Step-3: Unmount and eject the DVD

[root@yumsrv ~]# umount /mnt/rhel5/

[root@yumsrv ~]# eject /dev/block device name

Step-4: Installing createrepo RPM package for creating Repository file for DVD source.

Now go to the mount point directory (var/www/html/rhel5/) and execute the command below for installing the RPM package.

[root@yumsrv ~]# cd /var/www/html/rhel5/Server/

[root@yumsrv Server]# rpm –ivh createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm

Warning: createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186

Preparing…

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1:createrepo

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Step-5: Creating Repository file.

Now go to the /var/www/html/rhel5/ directory and create repodata file for DVD source.

[root@yumsrv ~]# cd /var/www/html/rhel5/

[root@yumsrv rhel5]# createrepo .

Step-6: Edit yum.conf file.

Now finally tell to yum use this “repo” frile for installing packages. It will automatically done by configuring yum.conf file

[root@yumsrv ~]# vi /etc/yum.conf

[main]

gpgcheck=0

plugins=0

[RHEL5-repository]

name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux Local Repository

baseurl=file:///var/www/html/rhel5

enabled=1

gpgkey=file:///var/www/html/rhel5/RPR-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

Step-7: Create Local debug information.

Now configure the debug information for DVD source by editing rhel-debuginfo.repo file.

[root@yumsrv ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d

[root@yumsrv ~]# cp rhel-debuginfo.repo  rhel5.repo

[root@yumsrv yum.repos.d]# vi rhel5.repo

[RHEL5-Debuginfo]

name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux Local Repository Debuginfo

baseurl=file:///var/www/html/rhel5

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-key-redhat-release

Note: Remove or move the rhel-debuginfo.repo file, otherwise yum will try to use this file.

Step-8: Disable RHN Plug-ins.

Now finally disable the RHN plug-ins and tell to yum that just install the packages.

[root@yumsrv ~]# cd /etc/yum/pluginconf.d

[root@yumsrv pluginconf.d]# vi rhnplugin.conf

[main]

enables=0

gpgcheck=0

[rhel-i386-server-5]

enabled=0

Step-9: Testing the yum server.

Now verify that your Yum is working properly by following this command.

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum clean all

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum update

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum list

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum install kernel* gcc* lib* httpd* vsftpd* -y

[root@yumsrv ~]# yum erase kernel* gcc* lib* httpd* vsftpd* -y

So, now you can install & uninstall your all required packages by using yum command with install & erase command.