RHEL/CentOS Local Repository Mirror

CentOS

Server

1. This exercise will work with CentOS 6/7.
2. CentOS requires roughly 10GiB for base, 5GiB for updates, and 1GiB for extras, ensure there is enough space is /var/www/html.
3. The following packages will need to be installed, yum-utils and createrepo.

   # yum install yum-utils createrepo

4. Create a repos directory in /var/www/html.

   # mkdir -p /var/www/html/repos/centos/6

5. Synchronize the base, extras, and updates repository.

   # reposync -r base -p /var/www/html/repos/centos/6/

   # reposync -r updates -p /var/www/html/repos/centos/6/

   # reposync -r extras -p /var/www/html/repos/centos/6/

6. Create the repository xml files for each of the repos synchronized.

   # createrepo /var/www/html/repos/centos/6/base/

   # createrepo /var/www/html/repos/centos/6/updates/

   # createrepo /var/www/html/repos/centos/6/extras/

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