4.8. Working with Subscription yum Repos
As
Section 4.1.4, “Subscription and Content Architecture” says, Red Hat Subscription Manager works
with package management tools like
yum. Subscription Manager has its own
yum plug-ins:
product-id for subscription-related information for products and
subscription-manager which is used for the content repositories.
As systems are subscribed to products, the associated content repositories (identified in the entitlement certificate) are made available to the system. The content repositories are based on the product and on the content delivery network, defined in the baseurl parameter of the rhsm.conf file.
A subscription may include access to optional content channels along with the default channels. This optional channels must be enabled before the packages in them can be installed (even if the system is fully entitled to the products in those channels).
List all available repos for the system, including disabled repos.
[root@server ~]# yum repolist all
repo id repo name status
rhel-6-server Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server - enabled
rhel-6-server-beta Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Be enabled
rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Op disabled
rhel-6-server-supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Su disabled
The optional and supplementary channels are named rhel-6-server-optional-rpms and rhel-6-server-supplementary, respectively.
The repositories can be enabled using the yum-config-manager command:
[root@server ~]# yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
Alternatively, simply specify the optional or supplementary repository when installing a package with yum. This uses the --enablerepo repo_name option. For example:
# yum install rubygems --enablerepo=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
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