On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 10/14/2015 04:49 PM, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote:
I am using CentOS on a private network which can’t access the Internet
so I want to create a local repository of packages on one or more DVDs, and get it installed on the private network. Someone had done this for CentOS 7, but not for CentOS 6. I have a VM running 6 so I am trying to create it for the previous major version. I thought there would be some obvious instructions on the preferred/recommended method for doing this, but I have failed to find them.
Can anyone respond with any useful links on how best to do this or
provide the recommended set of steps. I have seen various postings on this topic, but not anything official from the CentOS community.
thanks much, Mark
For CentOS-7 this is quite easy, mount the everything ISO and point to it. (Note, it is TOO BIG to fit on a DVD, so it needs to be on a thumb drive .. something that will hold at least 7.2 GB)
We roll a new ISO every month, you can get the latest one here:
http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/
Currently CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1509-01.iso
For 6, it is a bit harder, but not overly hard. Pick a mirror that is close from here:
https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/
Rsync the /6/ tree from that mirror, excluding the ISOs if you do not want them. As an example, I will pick the mirrors.kernel.org for this example ... this command:
rsync mirrors.kernel.org::centos/6/
shows this results:
drwxr-xr-x 27 2014/10/19 16:36:15 SCL drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/07/28 04:57:54 centosplus drwxrwxr-x 27 2015/05/18 11:02:50 cloud drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 contrib drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/05 07:44:48 cr drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 extras drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 fasttrack drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/10 11:56:29 isos drwxr-xr-x 42 2015/07/25 08:20:23 os drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/03 05:39:35 updates drwxr-xr-x 27 2014/10/19 16:36:15 xen4
So, you can exlude all except the trees you want, and rsync the rest.
Put the os and updates directories (also bigger than 4.7 GB) on a drive and mount it somewhere on the other network.
You can also do the same thing with the 7/ directory.
With both the 6 or 7 directories, you just use apache to show the directories and and update from them by pointing to that location on your remote network.
Re: the last paragraph, it isn't necessary to use apache. You can just specify the mounted location of the rsync'ed directories in your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (or whatever else you need) using the baseurl=file://(location). E.g:
[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base # Comment out the "mirrorlist" line so yum doesn't try to use the network #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... # baseurl=file:///disk/linux/CO6/os/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///disk/linux/CO6/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
(etc.)