View source for Making local yum rpm repositorie

Install ''createrepo''
<pre>
yum install  createrepo
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= Preparing=
Make directory structure
* A directory called ''base'' which holds local copy of RPM's
* A directory called ''updates'' which holds the updates.
On this server which is a PXE install server the RPM's are already resident on the ftp server ''/var/ftp/install/centos52/CentOS/RPMS'' which I just link to the repositorie
<pre>
mkdir -p /var/www/html/Centos/52/yum/updates
ln -s /var/ftp/install/centos52/CentOS/RPMS /var/www/html/Centos/52/yum/base
</pre>
= Creating repository headers =
Now create the base repository headers: (Takes a couple of minuttes)<br/>
''createrepo'' creates some files in a new ''repodata'' directory.
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[root@ks ~]# createrepo /var/www/html/Centos/52/yum
[root@ks ~]# ls /var/www/html/Centos/52/yum/repodata
filelists.xml.gz  other.xml.gz  primary.xml.gz  repomd.xml
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= Updating the repository =
Now update the repositorie<br/>
'''NOTE:''' rsync uses TCP port 873 which need to be open to the internet.
Choose update sources from [http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=31 CentOS European Mirrors]
<pre>
/usr/bin/rsync -avrt rsync://mirrors.se.kernel.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386 --exclude=debug/ /var/www/html/Centos/52/yum/updates
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=Links=
*[http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos howtoforge] on local repository
*[http://dotancohen.com/howto/yum_repo.html repository] on fedora
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