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Setting up local Redhat repository

Step 1: Get a web server up and running

Choose your favourite web server, setup an alias pointing to the repositories. For my example, the repository sits on a NFS share and it's served by lighttpd:

## rhel6 repo
alias.url = ( "/rhel6/" => "/nas/public/temp/rhel6/" )

Step 2: Create the directory structure

Base-pkg should contain the packages from your install media, updates should contain update packages.

mkdir -p /nas/public/temp/rhel6/{base-pkg,updates}

Step 3: Download the packages from Redhat

From a registered RHEL6 machine, run yumdownloader

cd /nas/public/temp/rhel6/updates
yumdownloader *

Step 4: Copy packages from install media

mount -oro,loop rhel-server-6.1-x86_64-dvd.iso t
cp -ar /my/downloads/iso/t/Packages/* /nas/public/temp/rhel6/base-pkg/

Step 5: Install createrepo and run it

Get createrepo from yum

yum -y install createrepo

Then run it

cd  /nas/public/temp/rhel6/base-pkg/
createrepo /nas/public/temp/rhel6/base-pkg/
cd  /nas/public/temp/rhel6/updates/
createrepo /nas/public/temp/rhel6/updates/

Step 6: Configure local repo on client machines

Create a local.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d

/etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo

name=Redhat $releasever - $basearch

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=http://192.168.13.101/rhel6/base-pkg/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

[updates-local]

name=Redhat $releasever - $basearch - Updates

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=http://192.168.13.101/rhel6/updates/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

Step 7: Keep updates up-to-date

Suppose if there is a good way to tell yumdownloader to fetch only the updates, it should be scheduled regularly. Then run createrepo again to update the meta files

cd  /nas/public/temp/rhel6/updates/
createrepo --update

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