Create Repo for Applications

Brief Update required

• TODO: add mirrors
• TODO: add gpg-checks

• Keep RPMs after downloading, setup yum.conf with:

# file: /var/cache/yum/yum.conf
keepcache=1

• Create repo on a system (used PCM headnode for this)
• Just copied a single RPM in to the directory below
• Create repo in the /var/www/html directory (web access required)

[root@pcmtest html]# createrepo --verbose /var/www/html/viglenrepo
1/1 - vapp-1-1.x86_64.rpm

Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata

• Add repo to another system, /etc/yum.repos.d/viglen.repo

# NOTE 172.28.10.69 was the server we ran createrepo on
[root@pcm-mctest ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/viglen.repo 
[viglen]
name=Viglen Application repo
baseurl=http://172.28.10.69/viglenrepo/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

• Check what files the repo provides

[root@pcm-mctest etc]$ repoquery -q --repoid=viglen -a
vapp-0:1-1.x86_64

• Install an app

[root@pcm-mctest ~]$ yum search vapp
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
kusu-installer                                                                             | 1.1 kB     00:00     
================================================= Matched: vapp ==================================================
vapp.x86_64 : Viglen Application Test

[root@pcm-mctest ~]$ yum install vapp
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vapp.x86_64 0:1-1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

==================================================================================================================
 Package                   Arch                        Version                  Repository                   Size
==================================================================================================================
Installing:
 vapp                      x86_64                      1-1                      viglen                      2.6 k

Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Upgrade       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 2.6 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
vapp-1-1.x86_64.rpm                                                                        | 2.6 kB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : vapp                                                                                       1/1 

Installed:
  vapp.x86_64 0:1-1                                                                                               

Complete!

• Copy RPMs across rest of cluster

# RPM will be in the /var/cache/yum directory, add to PCM
cp /var/cache/yum/viglen/packages/vapp-1-1.x86_64.rpm /depot/contrib/1000/

When adding RPM to a repo, run the following:

createrepo --update /var/www/html/viglenrepo
# on client
yum clean all