Create your own repo?

[xyphilon]

Hello,

I used to make my own Fedora repo's.
Stripped and customized for my servers... Was very handy.

I noticed the repo creation has changed a lot since Fedora 9.

Does anyone have a guide on how to make your own repo, based on Fedora 12?

I guess we are still using "createrepo" and anaconda's "buildinstall"?

Thanks!

[glennzo]

There a nice guide in this particular sub-forum written by member Seve if you care to search for it. In a nutshell, make a folder, populate that folder, run createrepo, make a .repo file and go to town. I suggest maybe testing the process using the files on the install DVD. I'll make a quick one now.
Make a folder.

mkdir /temp/installfiles

Type mount to see where the DVD I just inserted is mounted.

mount
...
...
/dev/sr0 on /media/Fedora 12 i386 DVD type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500)

Copy the files (didn't work as regular user so I switched to root). Use tab completion for the command so the path to the source files is correct.

cp /media/Fedora\ 12\ i386\ DVD/Packages/* /temp/installfiles/

While the files are copying open another terminal and create the repo file.

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/test.repo

Add the following to the file.

[test]
Name=Test Repo - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=file:///temp/installfiles/
enabled=1

Files are done copying. Run createrepo.

[root@leonardo glenn]# createrepo /temp/installfiles
2399/2399 - zsh-4.3.10-4.fc12.i686.rpm                                          
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
[root@leonardo glenn]#

Test the new repository.

[root@leonardo glenn]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
updates/metalink                                                                  |  18 kB     00:00     
 * fedora: mirror.cogentco.com
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
 * updates: ftp.us.unixeria.com
adobe-linux-i386                                                                  |  951 B     00:00     
google                                                                            |  951 B     00:00     
repof12                                                                           | 1.3 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                            | 3.3 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                         | 3.3 kB     00:00     
test                                                                              | 1.3 kB     00:00 ... 
test/primary                                                                      | 928 kB     00:00 ... 
test                                                                                           2399/2399
virtualbox                                                                        |  951 B     00:00     
[root@leonardo glenn]#

It worked. Just as a note of interest. I had been using rsync to populate my repositories in the past. I just discovered reposync. It's part of the yum-utils package (yum install yum-utils). Once installed you can reposync fedora /temp/installfiles for example. This will put all of the files from the fedora repo into /temp/installfiles.

[root@leonardo glenn]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: mirror.cogentco.com
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
 * updates: ftp.us.unixeria.com
repo id                            repo name                                              status
adobe-linux-i386                   Adobe Systems Incorporated                             enabled:     17
fedora                             Fedora 12 - i386                                       enabled: 15,366
google                             Google - i386                                          enabled:      1
repof12                            Local Repository for Fedora 12 - i386                  enabled: 15,235
rpmfusion-free                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free                        enabled:    383
rpmfusion-free-updates             RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Updates              enabled:    179
rpmfusion-nonfree                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree                     enabled:    124
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates          RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - Updates           enabled:     97
test                               Test Repo - 12 - i386                                  enabled:  2,399
updates                            Fedora 12 - i386 - Updates                             enabled:  2,608
virtualbox                         Fedora 12 - i386 - VirtualBox                          enabled:      4
repolist: 36,413

[xyphilon]

Cool. Thanks.
So, I suck this into an ISO, and I am done?

Can I also use yum to update the RPMs in my distro?

[bob]

(moved from Guides & Solutions No Questions to Spins & Remixes)

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by bob

(moved from Guides & Solutions No Questions to Spins & Remixes)

Old Glennzo is sleeping on the job again

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by xyphilon

Cool. Thanks.
So, I suck this into an ISO, and I am done?

Huh?

Originally Posted by xyphilon

Can I also use yum to update the RPMs in my distro?

If you mean sync the repository from time to time I think reposync will do that too. Then run createrepo --update to add the new files.

[xyphilon]

I need to create a repo which I can make an ISO of, and then burn it to CDs, to install the rest of my servers...

I used to do this with buildinstall from anaconda runtime...