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Hi Folks,

Here's a trick to create YUM local repository using your RHEL DVD.

1. Insert your DVD or ISO Image if your using VMware.
2. Then mount the DVD
mkdir /mnt1
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt1
3. Now pointing the yum repository file
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
vi rhel5.repo
#Add this lines in the rhel5.repo file
[rhel5]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
baseurl=file:///mnt1/Server
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Save and exit
4. That's it you have your own local Yum repository.

Note:Only root can have access of using yum....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try: #yum info yum
[root@rhel5demo ~]# yum info yum
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
rhel-debuginfo | 1.3 kB 00:00
rhel5 | 1.3 kB 00:00
Installed Packages
Name : yum
Arch : noarch
Version : 3.2.19
Release : 18.el5
Size : 3.1 M
Repo : installed
Summary : RPM installer/updater
URL : http://linux.duke.edu/yum/
License : GPLv2+
Description: Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and
: install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and
: downloaded automatically prompting the user as necessary.

[root@rhel5demo ~]#

I made it simple to understand....

1. Install "createrepo" rpm from the Server folder in RHEL DVD

# rpm -ivh /media/RHEL_5.3\ i386\ DVD/Server/createrepo- 0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm

or download from internet...

2. Create a directory under root

# mkdir /data

3. Dump all the cotents in the server forlder of the DVD to /data

#cp /media/RHEL_5.3\ i386\ DVD/Server/* /data

4. After dumping, we have to make the repository available by:

# createrepo -v /data

5. Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-debuginfo.repo

It should look like this:

[root@vixen run]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-debuginfo.repo

[rhel-debuginfo]

name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug

baseurl=file:///data/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

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

6. That's it... You can use install any packeges and "yum" will take care of its

dependencies...

Install package

Eg: # yum install gcc-4.1.2-44.el5

Unistall a package

Eg: # yum remove gcc-4.1.2-44.el5

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