How to create Local Repositories in RHEL

I need to create a local repository in RHEl 5.5. i386

Because when I type some command in terminal it say that RHEL is not subscribed with RHN which is true. I took it from friend.

So can someone tell me how to achieve this target.

Further Actions based on Warl0ck instructions.

• I copied the RPM’s from Mdia to /home/Umair/RPM folder
• I installed the script createrepo-0.4.11-i386.el5.noarch.rpm located
  in Server directory of Installation Media.
  Then it took some time to generate metadata. Total Packages 2348

• Then I create the local repo file using vi

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

These are the entries I added.

And finally i run this command

yum -y install apache php{,-cgi,-cli,-gd,-mysql} mysql{,-server}

and in reply bash slapped me with error

Answers:

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Method 1

There’re plenty of documents out there, given a set of RPM packages, you could do something like this,

First install the createrepo script, by

rpm -ivh /path/to/mounted/cdrom/createrepo*.rpm (Depends where you mounted your RedHat DVD)

Now create a folder to hold all RPMS that you want to be in the repository, e.g RPMS, and put the needed “*.rpm” files inside,

Then do createrepo /path/to/RPMS to generate metadata.

When finished, add the repository to your yum config, e.g put the following to /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo

[local]
name=Local Repository Demo
baseurl=file:///absolute/path/to/RPMS
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
protect=1

Method 2

The first thing you need to do is:

Either (not both) of:

1. Pay for a Red Hat subscription for the machine.
2. Convert the system to CentOS.

Then you should find that you are able to access software and complete your task.

Method 3

1. Install create repo

   # cd /media/(dvd-label)
   # cd /Packages
   # rpm -ivh createrepo*.rpm

2. Copy all contents from dvd or just the packges
   • If whole dvd is copied, no need to run createrepo. Because repository is inbuilt in dvd. (To check, see if there is a repodata directory)
   • If package dir is only copied, run

     # createrepo <dir where the packages are copied>

3. Create yum repo file:

   vim dvd.repo
   [packages]
   name=packages
   baseurl=file://<dir where the packages are copied>
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=0
   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   [packages] -- Give a name, any name
   name=packages -- description for above
   baseurl       -- location where rpms are available
   enabled=1     -- to enable this repo
   gpgcheck=0    -- not to check for GPG license file

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