Issue
I have created a rpm package, and I need to publish it to YUM so that users can directly do yum install softwareName to install the application. I searched on google but can't find many resources. I'm new to this thing so I don't really know what I want to do is possible. I've tried to create a local yum repository for the application, but it seems work only for the local machine. Can anyone help please? Thank you.
Solution
Assuming you've YUM installed on a Linux box.
You need to create a YUM repository that contains your RPM. For example,
./mydir/Packages/my.rpm
Use createrepo to create repository for that directory.
createrepo ./mydir
Above would create a repodata directory in ./mydir
Then tell YUM where that repository is by creating a repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/my.repo. Contents of my.repo can be something like this:
[my_repo]
name=My YUM REPO
baseurl=file:///path/to/mydir
enabled=1
Then do, yum --enablerepo=* clean all. This should regenerate metadata for yum.
Finally,
`yum --enablerepo=* install my`
Above, my refers to my.rpm
In order to access this from other machines on the network, you need a web access,
Install http. Place your repository somewhere in, /var/www/html/repos/mydir/Packages/my.rpm
Then follow other steps and edit my.repo file to include hostname of the machine in the baseurl attribute :
baseurl=http://myrepository.com/mydir
Answered By - iamauser Answer Checked By - Terry (WPSolving Volunteer)