I have already written an article to download an individual rpm along with all it’s dependencies, in this article I will share the steps to download entire repository from CentOS / RHEL 7 to your local Linux node. To download the repository you will need one time active internet access.
Once the rpms are downloaded the you can configure a local repository with these rpms for offline usage. Although downloading (syncing) the entire repository content to local Linux node may take some time depending upon your internet speed and the content of the repository.
I have a node which is in a private network and does not has access to the Internet so I always have to go through a lot of trouble in case I have to install some additional rpm with multiple dependencies. Using this method I have created a local repository in my private network which helps me download required rpm without internet.
Install the required packages
First install the yum-utils and createrepo packages on the system
which will be used for the syncing purpose:
# yum install yum-utils createrepo
Download entire repository from CentOS 7
On CentOS unlike RHEL you do not need to perform any additional
subscription related activity to get the access to their repository. As
soon as you install CentOS, you will find below list of repo files under
/etc/yum.repos.d
[root@openstack yum.repos.d]# ll
total 40
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1664 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1309 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-CR.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 649 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 314 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-fasttrack.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 630 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1331 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-Sources.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3830 Aug 30 2017 CentOS-Vault.repo
Not all of these repositories will be in enable state, some of them may be in disable state. To check the currently active repos use below command
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos.excellmedia.net
* extras: centos.excellmedia.net
* updates: centos.excellmedia.net
repo id repo name status
base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 9,911
extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 432
openstack-pike/x86_64 OpenStack Pike Repository 2,812
rdo-qemu-ev/x86_64 RDO CentOS-7 - QEMU EV 59
updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 1,540
repolist: 14,754
In RHEL 8 reposync is part of dnf-plugins-core rpm. The new syntax
to download entire repository in RHEL 8 is
[root@rhel-8 ~]# dnf reposync --repoid= -p=
To download (or sync) a repository on CentOS/RHEL 7 use the below command
# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=<repo_id> --download_path=<path>
Here replace repo_id with the ID of the repository you wish to sync
locally, for example in the below command I am syncing extras repo and
downloading the rpms to /tmp
# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=extras --download_path=/tmp
Repository ID. Inside there is all the packages
To have access to the group data for the newly synced repo, please run thecreaterepocommand as follows:
# cd /tmp/<channel-id>
# createrepo -v /tmp/<channel-id>/
For example:
# cd /tmp/extras
# createrepo /tmp/extras
Download entire repository from RHEL 7
First of all on RHEL 7 you must first register your node to the Red Hat Network.
# subscription-manager register
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
Username: deepak
Password:
The system has been registered with ID: 04bbc67c-f45c-47e9-9bec-122e8cd10c9d
Next check the list of entitlements to your ID
# subscription-manager list --available --all
Once you know which entitlement suits your requirement, then attach the
POOL ID for your system
# subscription-manager attach --pool=<pool_id>
Next enable all the repositories you wish to use. You can check all the subscribed repositories using the below command
# yum repolist all
Once you have the repo id which you wish to download use the same command as we use with CentOS 7
Syntax:
# reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=<repo_id> --download_path=<path> --downloadcomps --download-metadata
Here replace repo_id with the ID of the repository you wish to sync
locally, for example in the below command I am syncing extras repo and
downloading the rpms to /tmp
#reposync --gpgcheck -l --repoid=rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms --download_path=/tmp --downloadcomps --download-metadata
Repository ID. Inside there is all the packages
To have access to the group data for the newly synced repo, please run
thecreaterepocommand as follows:
# cd /var/www/html/<channel-id>
# createrepo -v /var/www/html/<channel-id>/ -g comps.xml
For example:
# cd /var/www/html/rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms
# createrepo -v /var/www/html/rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms/ -g comps.xml
Spawning worker 0 with 1 pkgs
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Worker 0: reading Packages/dpdk-16.11-3.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
Worker 1: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-9.0.0-3.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 2: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-9.0.1-3.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 3: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-9.0.3-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 4: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-9.0.3-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 5: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-puppet-9.0.0-3.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 6: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-puppet-9.0.1-3.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 7: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-puppet-9.0.3-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 8: reading Packages/openstack-packstack-puppet-9.0.3-5.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 9: reading Packages/openstack-utils-2016.1-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm
Worker 10: reading Packages/openvswitch-test-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.noarch.rpm
Worker 11: reading Packages/openvswitch-test-2.9.0-56.el7fdp.noarch.rpm
Workers Finished
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Starting other db creation: Sun Oct 7 19:23:07 2018
Ending other db creation: Sun Oct 7 19:23:07 2018
Starting filelists db creation: Sun Oct 7 19:23:07 2018
Ending filelists db creation: Sun Oct 7 19:23:07 2018
Starting primary db creation: Sun Oct 7 19:23:07 2018
Ending primary db creation: Sun Oct 7 19:23:07 2018
Sqlite DBs complete
Let us validate our repository
I have configured an offline repository using http server with below content
[rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms]
name=rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms
baseurl=http://192.168.122.1/repo/rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
# yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
repo id repo name status
rhel-7-server-extras-rpms rhel-7-server-extras-rpms enabled: 814
rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms rhel-7-server-openstack-10-devtools-rpms enabled: 12
rhel-7-server-rh-common-rpms rhel-7-server-rh-common-rpms enabled: 231
rhel-7-server-rpms rhel-7-server-rpms enabled: 18,263
repolist: 19,320
So now I can start using this repository offline.
Lastly I hope the steps from the articleto download entire repository from CentOS /RHEL 7 to your local Linux node was helpful. So, let me know your suggestions and feedback using the comment section.
