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Your own local repository.

In this post, I will explain how to create your own local repository in Centos 7.

1.Attach and mount the iso

sudo su - 
mkdir /mnt/cdrom   #create a mount point            
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
df  -h            #verify if mounted 
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2.Copy the Packages from iso

ISO comes with inbuilt packages.These packages must have .rpm extension. So, we copy those inbuilt packages to another directory and make it as a new repository.

ls /mnt/cdrom
cp -R  /mnt/cdrom/Packages    /root
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3.Create .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d directory

Create a configuration file with .repo as extension and add these details into it.

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
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Filename - local.repo

[localrepo]
name=Prajwal Repository
baseurl=file:///root/Packages
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
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In the above file(ie., local.repo),
'name' is the name of the repo,
'baseurl' is the path to the package directory
'gpgcheck' it takes 0 or 1. It's used for security. Only a user with gpgkey can access this repo if it's set to 1
'enabled' it also take 0 or 1. To activate this repo set it to 1.

4.Building local repository

createrepo is the command to create a repository.

yum info createrepo
yum install createrepo
createrepo -v  /root/Packages 
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5.Verify if the repository is successfully created.

yum repolist all | grep -i prajwal  
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Cool then!

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lbonanomi

I like the ISO install instructions! This is super handy for air-gapped environments!