How to set up yum repository to use locally-mounted DVD with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
Would like to upgrade server from RHEL 6.x to RHEL 6.y
Need to upgrade to RHEL 6.x through yum
Have a secure environment that will never be connected to the internet, but still needs to be updated
Way to update the packages on server, with no satellite server and servers disconnected from internet
Offline patches for Red Hat systems
How do I create a local repository in RHEL 6?
If the system is registered to Red Hat Network, yum can be run with the --noplugins option
to prevent it from connecting to RHN. The safer option would be to unregister the system
to avoid updating to the latest release.
Mount the RHEL 6 installation ISO somewhere like /media/rhel6dvd, e.g.:
# mount -o loop RHEL6.6-20130130.0-Server-x86_64-DVD1.iso /media/rhel6dvd
Copy the media.repo file from the root of the mounted ISO to
/etc/yum.repos.d/ and set the permissions to something sane, e.g.:
Edit the new repo file, changing the gpgcheck=0 setting to 1 and adding the following
3 lines (make sure to replace "Server" with "Client" or "Workstation", depending on
the type of RHEL DVD in use):
In the end, the new repo file could look like the following
(though the mediaid will be different depending on the version of RHEL):
/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel6dvd.repo
[dvd-Server]
name=DVD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Server
mediaid=1359576196.686790
metadata_expire=-1
gpgcheck=1
cost=500
enabled=1
baseurl=file:///media/rhel6dvd/Server
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
As a final step, it might be a good idea to run the command "yum clean all" once
To configure access to the supplementary packages in the directories
HighAvailability, LoadBalancer, ResilientStorage, and ScalableFileSystem,
add additional repositories for them in the same file, e.g.: