A Passionate Techie

This page will be useful when creating your own/ custom yum repo and using it for your yum installations. The standard RPM package management tool in Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS is the yum package manager. Yum works quite well, if a little bit slower than other RPM package managers like apt4rpm and urpmi, but it is solid and handles dependencies extremely well. Using it with official and third-party repositories is a breeze to set up, but what if you want to use your own repository? Perhaps you manage a large computer lab or network and need to have — or want to have — certain packages available to these systems that you maintain in-house. Or perhaps you simply want to set up your own repository to share a few RPM packages. The following are the steps to create your own repo. Step-by-step guide Follow these steps on server machine. Creating your own yum repository is very simple, and very straightforward. In order to do it, you need the  createrepo ...

This page will be useful when creating your own/ custom yum repo and using it for your yum installations. The standard RPM package management tool in Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS is the yum package manager. Yum works quite well, if a little bit slower than other RPM package managers like apt4rpm and urpmi, but it is solid and handles dependencies extremely well. Using it with official and third-party repositories is a breeze to set up, but what if you want to use your own repository? Perhaps you manage a large computer lab or network and need to have — or want to have — certain packages available to these systems that you maintain in-house. Or perhaps you simply want to set up your own repository to share a few RPM packages. The following are the steps to create your own repo. Step-by-step guide Follow these steps on server machine. Creating your own yum repository is very simple, and very straightforward. In order to do it, you need the  createrepo  tool, which can b...