On 4/2/2014 07:16, Jim Perrin wrote:
>
>> I have to add the DVD as a repo. Here's what I do:
>
> You shouldn't need to do this. There should be a redhat.repo file in
> /etc/yum.repos.d
I didn't have such a thing on the RHEL7 beta VM I set up, nor on the
RHEL7 RC I just set up. /etc/yum.repos.d was empty on both machines
after installation, and "yum repolist all" reports "repolist: 0".
Perhaps it only appears if you attach a RHN subscription to the machine?
Digimer's DVD repo method misses out on a lot of packages since the ISO
files don't include the "optional" package set. A big chunk of these
are things like -devel packages corresponding to library packages, so if
you're a software developer, the DVD/ISO contents are likely to be
insufficient.
My method:
1. Mount the ISO or DVD on the machine, find the Packages directory, and
copy it into /var/www/html/rhel7rc on one of the LAN's web servers.
(Putting it on a separate web server allows the repo to have a lifetime
independent of the RHEL7 test system, and also allows you to share the
repo among multiple test systems.)
2. From /var/www/html/rhel7rc on the web server, say:
rsync -rv
rsync://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/rc/7/Server-optional/x86_64/os/Packages .
This step downloads another ~2.1 GB of RPMs beyond what came on the
installation DVD, merging thousands more RPMs into the set you copied
from the DVD/ISO.
Substitute your OS edition for "Server" as necessary. Ditto CPU type.
3. Create the repo:
cd /var/www/html/rhel7rc
createrepo .
When this completes, "ls /var/www/html/rhel7rc" should report:
Packages repodata
If you skip this step or don't do it right, yum won't chase dependencies
properly.
4. Create /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel7rc.repo on the RHEL7 box:
[rhel7rc]
name=RHEL7 RC local mirror
baseurl=http://rhel7rc/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
"rhel7rc" is a CNAME or /etc/hosts alias for the web server. We need to
use such an alias because the next step is:
5. Save the following as /etc/httpd/conf.d/rhel7rc.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/rhel7rc
ServerAlias rhel7rc
<Directory "/var/www/html/rhel7rc">
Allow from all
AllowOverride None
Options +Indexes
Order allow,deny
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Then say "service httpd restart".
At this point, your new local mirror of RHEL7 RC should work.
(If you're wondering why I took the time to write all this up, it's
because I figured it out back in December when the beta came out, then
forgot a bunch of details in the ~4 months it took for the RC to come
out and had to rediscover a bunch of it. If nothing else, this way I'll
have a reference I can dig out of my email Sent folder the next time I
need to do this.)