I was asked to come up with a solution to get updates to our linux computers on a classified network.
I was told to create a local YUM repository and have the clients connect to it. -- Simple right. No at least not to me.

The last time I worked with linux was back on WS3, things have changed. So let me explain my situation.

I have various Red Hat Linux versions -- 5.1, 5.4 & 5.5 that are not connected to the internet and never will be. I need a way to grab updates for those versions and load them.
I have one linux RHEL 5.5 with paid subscription that is allowed to be connected to the internet.
I was going to use this one as my repository to download the packages I need, disconnect from the internet and have my "blessed" machines access it through an nfs share.

Possible solutions were to create a local YUM repository, set up a mirror or perhaps red hat satellite (which may or may not coast more money.)

I need an easy to step by step guide or what would be the best solution. I am getting overwhelmed with all the try this solutions. My boss is losing faith and I starting to feel like an idiot.

Anyway helpful suggestions or guides would be useful.
I thought just creating the local YUM repo and connect it via an NFS share would work but I'm lost.

thanks,
vintage2010

This site should tell you the basics of how to do it. RHEL 5 and Fedora 6 are roughly the same as far as compatibility of RPM's, so this guide should be fine w/ a little tweaking. http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up...sitory-fedora8

HTH

Forrest

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Thanks
sorry -- my bad. It's the tweaking part that I'm having an issue with.... GRR>

Can you be a little more specific where you are having problems then?

Forrest

Below are the steps I was given to help me accomplish setting it up.
In red are the steps that are not clear to me.

I created a folder under /var/www/html/yum/rhel5/updates. Then copied all the files in the "workstation" folder of my rhel 5.5 disk.



Steps :

1.

Copy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 DVD ISO RHEL5-Client-20070208.0-i386-DVD.iso from Red Hat Network and create a local repository on the local Repository server.

#mkdir -p /var/www/html/cdrom/iso
#mount -o loop /RHEL5-Client-20070208.0-i386-DVD.iso /var/www/html/cdrom/iso
#cd /var/www/html/cdrom -- this is where I would change it to the directory structure mentioned above on my server
#createrepo .
#yum clean all


2. Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo which should have the contents as mentioned below :

#cat /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo
[RHEL-5-Repository]
name=RHEL5 repository
baseurl=file:///cdrom -- how would I change this ? This would be the same file path as mentioned above.
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0


3.

Share with httpd by making sure you have lines like these in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file: -- completely confused with this step? I was going to setup a NFS share but maybe this better.??


ServerAdmin root@10.65.6.141
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName 10.65.6.141


(Where 10.65.6.141 is the local Repository server)

# httpd -t
# service httpd start



4.

Client side configuration:

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/my.repo
----
[RH51-Server]
name= RHEL 5.1 Server Repository
baseurl=http://10.65.6.141/cdrom --- change the "cdrom" to the filepath I setup on my server (the one mentioned above)
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
----



5.

Verify from client: this seems pretty straight foward.

# yum list
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
Deployment_Guide-as-IN.noarch 5.0.0-19
RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-bn-IN.noarch
5.0.0-19 RH51-Server
Deployment_Guide-de-DE.noarch 5.0.0-19
RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-en-US.noarch
5.0.0-19 RH51-Server
Deployment_Guide-es-ES.noarch 5.0.0-19
RH51-Server Deployment_Guide-fr-FR.noarch
5.0.0-19 RH51-Server ========
OR
# yum update

I figured out what my problem was and am closing my thread. Thanks for the help