Add a custom-built rpm to a repository
 

We have a local repository, and I recently used rpmbuild -bb to build an rpm. I copied it over to the RPMS subdir where all the other rpms are, but it doesn't show up when I do a 'yum update pkgname' on a server. Do I have to somehow tell the repository that I put some new rpms there? Is there a tool to do this, or do I just vi a file and add the rpm names?

Thanks,
Neil

You can add a local directory to Red Hat's list of repositories. I am uncertain about Red Hat but I would guess that the repository list is kept in /etc/yum.repos.d.

In any case you can install a rpm package which is not in any repository by using the rpm command. Something like:

rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/my.new.rpm

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Steve Stites

We already have a local directory with rpms, and it's already in our yum configuration so that when we do a 'yum update|install $pkgname' it will look in this repository. The issue I'm having is that I copied an rpm into that directory, and yum doesn't seem to know that. When I try 'yum update $pkgname', it says that I already have the latest version(the rpm I build is a newer version).

I could conceivable run rpm -Uvh /path/to/$pkgname, but that kinda get's troublesome with dependencies and all, and we've established that we want to use yum for this.

Thanks,
Neil

I think that the way you straighten yum out on what versions it has on hand is:

yum clean headers

However, I have never tried this command so take my advice with a grain of salt. Check out the command in man yum and Google and see what you think.

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Steve Stites

Have you tried recreating the repo with createrepo? repomd.xml, etc will need to be updated

You will have to use the command "createrepo" to update the repo files for your local repositry. See the man page for createrepo.

Thanks! I'll look into it.