Configuration Yum on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5

Installing and running web server (httpd)

Checking web  server service
# ps  ax  |grep   http
If the httpd service is not running please install
#yum -y install httpd*
Starting web  server service
#service  httpd start
Build the repository
# mkdir  /var/www/html/yum
Getting packages to repository
Mounting CD/DVD RHEL
Copying RPM packages from CD/DVD to yum repository
#cp  -v  /media/RHEL/RPMS/*   /var/www/html/yum
installing createrepo
Installing createrepo package
Checking its package
# rpm  -qa  |grep createrepo
If doesn’t have : install # rpm –ivh  createrepo.x.x.x.rpm
Running createrepo tool to repository directory
Createing meta-data to repository directory
# createrepo  /var/www/html/yum
You can see:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2227275 2010-02-18 11:51 filelists.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6487453 2010-02-18 11:51 other.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 747714 2010-02-18 11:51 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951 2010-02-18 11:51 repomd.xml

Configure yum client
Editing file: /etc/yum.conf  Or  /etc/yum.repos.d/*
[base-local]
name=RHEL $releasever - $basearch failover
method=priority
baseurl=http://192.168.74.100/yum/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0