Create a YUM server for RHEL 7.5 using its ISO file

This document is to create a YUM server using RHEL installer ISO file.

• Install a RHEL VM with 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU and 80 GB HDD.

• Create a repository folder inside VM
  

mkdir -p /rhel75/repo

• Mount the ISO using mount command and copy the Packages folder into your repository folder

cp /run/media/vcloud/RHEL-7.5\ Server.x86_64/Packages/* /rhel75/repo/

• Install createrepo package if it is not installed during OS installation

cd /rhel75/repo
rpm -ivh createrepo-0.9.9-28.el7.noarch.rpm

• Create repository

createrepo /rhcelab/repo/

• Clean YUM cache

yum clean all

• Update the rhcelab.repo file to point to your local repository folder

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhcelab.repo
[rhcerepo]
name=rhcerepo
baseurl=file:///rhel75/repo/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

• List the repolist

yum repolist

• For testing, try to install any package

yum install redhat-lsb