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you need to run it as localinstall<br />
yum --localinstall update /path/to/files/packages<br />
yum update --localinstall pacakge.rpm package2.rpm etc.<br />
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you need to run it as localinstall
yum --localinstall update /path/to/files/packages
yum update --localinstall pacakge.rpm package2.rpm etc.



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I have a totally isolated server running RHEL5 i.e. no internet connection.<br />
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I have downloaded from RHN all the latest upgraded rpm's and put them in a directory on the server e.g /data/patches/20100915/rpm<wbr />-packages<br />
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I then used : <br />
&nbsp; createrepo --database /data/patches/20100915/rpm<wbr />-packages<br />
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This then created a subdirectory called repodata with all the metadata files in it.<br />
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I then created a new repository file in /etc/yum.repos.d &nbsp;as follows :<br />
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[rhel-Updates]<br />
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - i386<br />
baseurl=file://data/patche<wbr />s/20100915<wbr />/rpm-packa<wbr />ges/<br />
enabled=1<br />
gpgcheck=0<br />
gpgkey=<br />

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When I run yum update it comes back with an error saying that it cannot find<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;/data/patches/20100915/rpm<wbr />-packages/<wbr />repodata/r<wbr />epomd.xml<br />
yet when I check the location the file exists.<br />
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I am fairly new to linux and RHEL5 so any help with setting up a local repository would be gratefully appreciated.
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I have a totally isolated server running RHEL5 i.e. no internet connection.

I have downloaded from RHN all the latest upgraded rpm's and put them in a directory on the server e.g /data/patches/20100915/rpm-packages

I then used : 
  createrepo --database /data/patches/20100915/rpm-packages

This then created a subdirectory called repodata with all the metadata files in it.

I then created a new repository file in /etc/yum.repos.d  as follows :

[rhel-Updates]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - i386
baseurl=file://data/patches/20100915/rpm-packages/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=


When I run yum update it comes back with an error saying that it cannot find
     /data/patches/20100915/rpm-packages/repodata/repomd.xml
yet when I check the location the file exists.

I am fairly new to linux and RHEL5 so any help with setting up a local repository would be gratefully appreciated.

Problem creating local yum repository on stand-alone RHEL5 server

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