Yum Repositories

Yum Repositories

YUM Repository configuration files must:

• be located in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory
• have .repo extension, to be recognized by YUM

Available YUM Repository configuration file options are:

• Repository ID - One word unique repository ID (example: [examplerepo])
• Name - Human readable name of the repository (example: name=Example Repository)
• Baseurl - URL to the repodata directory. You can use file://path if repository is located locally or ftp://link, http://link, https://link if repository is located remotely - HTTP Authentication available http://user:password@www.repo1.com/repo1 (example: baseurl=http://mirror.cisp.com/CentOS/6/os/i386/)
• Enabled - Enable repository when performing updates and installs (example: enabled=1)
• Gpgcheck - Enable/disable GPG signature checking (example: gpgcheck=1)
• Gpgkey - URL to the GPG key (example: gpgkey=http://mirror.cisp.com/CentOS/6/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6)
• Exclude - List of the packages to exclude (example: exclude=httpd,mod_ssl)
• Includepkgs - List of the packages to include (example: include=kernel)

Required YUM Repository configuration file options are:

• Repository ID
• Name
• Baseurl
• Enabled 

Nice commands are

yum shell //will put you in the yum cli. type ? for help
yum repolist //will list repositories