Hi,

I have created local repo for yum to work on RHEL5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga).

I have done this many times and never faced such issue
Steps I followed

1. mkdir /rhel5
2. moved all RHEL DVD files to this Directory /rhel5
3. installed createrepo RPM
4. executed this command
# cd /rhel5/Server/
# createrepo -v .

5. # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/myownrepo
[localinfo]
name=MyOwnRepo
baseurl=file:///rhel5/Server/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

6. yum clean all

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Here are the few outputs

]# yum list | more
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Installed Packages
Deployment_Guide-en-US.noarch 5.2-9 installed
GConf2.i386 2.14.0-9.el5 installed
GConf2-devel.i386 2.14.0-9.el5 installed
MAKEDEV.i386 3.23-1.2 installed
MySQL-python.i386 1.2.1-1 installed
NetworkManager.i386 1:0.6.4-8.el5 installed
NetworkManager-glib.i386 1:0.6.4-8.el5 installed
NetworkManager-gnome.i386 1:0.6.4-8.el5 installed
ORBit2.i386 2.14.3-4.el5 installed

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# yum info squid
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Installed Packages
Name : squid
Arch : i386
Epoch : 7
Version: 2.6.STABLE6
Release: 3.el5
Size : 3.3 M
Repo : installed
Summary: The Squid proxy caching server.
Description:
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients,
supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional
caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single,
non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially
hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking
DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.

Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System
lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data
(ftpget), and some management and client tools.

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# yum remove squid
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package squid.i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-3.el5 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
squid i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-3.el5 installed 3.3 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 1 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : squid ######################### [1/1]

Removed: squid.i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-3.el5
Complete!

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Now the issue is when I try to install something with yum it say no package find

# rpm -qa | grep squid

# yum install squid
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package squid available.
Nothing to do



Can any body suggest what is wrong with this?

Any comments/suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Sam.

this by chance ??
you did not pay Red Hat for updates .

What John VV said, although its certainly possible that your company paid for a subscription, but this system has not been registered yet.
Try

rhn_register

from the cmd line as root.

Guys, I have done this many times. Local repo means yum should look to the local directory not RHN...

Anyway I have fixed this issue.... The problem was the name of the repo "/etc/yum.repos.d/myownrepo". just renamed it myownrepo to myown.repo it is working now. :-) Actually yum looks /etc/youm.repos.d/*.repo and look which repo is enabled.

Have a look below


# yum install squid
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
localinfo 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 729 kB 00:00
localinfo : ################################################## 2115/2115
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package squid.i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-3.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
squid i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-3.el5 localinfo 1.2 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: squid ######################### [1/1]

Installed: squid.i386 7:2.6.STABLE6-3.el5
Complete!


Cheers