Configure yum server in centos 7 | step by step yum repository | linux package manager

YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an open source package management tool for RPM (RedHat Package Manager) based Linux systems. It allows  to easily install, update, remove or search software packages on a systems.

OS        -    CentOS 7

IP        -    172.17.20.110

Package    -    Createrepo        

Step 1

Install Createrepo Package :

yum install createrepo httpd

Step 2

Copy ISO file of CentOS 7 everything OR download from internet it’s approx 6-7GB.

Note : - In this tutorial we used a CentOS 7 64bit Minimal and copy in “iso” directory

ls  /iso

Create repo directory - select name according to your project

mkdir  /var/www/html/linuxtopic

Step 3

Mount CentOS 7 ISO

mount -o loop /iso/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso

cd /mntls

Copy Packages in repo directory

rsync -av  /mnt/Packages/   /var/www/html/linuxtopic/

Step 4

Generate yum repository

createrepo /var/www/html/linuxtopic

Your repo generated successfully , you can check repodata folder

ls -l /var/www/html/linuxtopic/repodata/

Restart  httpd server

systemctl restart httpdSystemctl status httpd

Step 5

Go to  Client and  Add repo entry in yum.repo.d, create any file add following entry

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

[linuxtopic]                  

name=linuxtopic yum repo      

baseurl=http://172.17.20.110/linuxtopic    

enabled=1          

gpgcheck=0

[linuxtopic]                        =    Repository name

baseurl=http://172.17.20.110/linuxtopic     =    base url of yum server

enabled=1                       =    1 = enable / 0= disable

gpgcheck=0                    =    0 = disable / 1 =  enable

Step 6

Install Package

yum clean expire-cache ; sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="linuxtopic" install  package-name
Ex
yum clean expire-cache ; sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="linuxtopic" install  chrony

Step 7

Update yum repository

Download / copy rpm package in  /var/www/html/linuxtopic directory

yum --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/www/html/linuxtopic/ vim*

Update Repository

createrepo --update /var/www/html/linuxtopic

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