Create A Yum Repository

April 12th, 2007

  1. Build your RPM packages. Refer to “Maximum RPM”. Assume you put your RPM packages in /path/to/RPMS/i386/*.rpm
  2. Create a yum repository. 
    • cd /path/to/RPMS/..
    • createrepo RPMS
    • (Now there should be a /path/to/RPMS/repodata directory.)
  3. Publish your repository. I wanna publish it via Apache, so I do following:
    • ln -s /path/to/RPMS /var/www/RPMS
    • (Browse http://localhost/RPMS, there should be “repodata” and “i386” directories.)
  4. Enable your repository in client machine. Edit /etc/yum.conf file as following: 
    [main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log

[my-repository]
name = My Repository
baseurl=http://localhost/RPMS
gpgcheck=0

Here we go! Invoke “yum list” and you should able to see all RPM packages you built.

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