8.4.2. Setting [repository] Options
The
[repository] sections, where repository is a unique repository ID such as my_personal_repo (spaces are not permitted), allow you to define individual Yum repositories. To avoid conflicts, custom repositories should not use names used by Red Hat repositories.
The following is a bare-minimum example of the form a
[repository] section takes:
[repository] name=repository_name baseurl=repository_url
Every
[repository] section must contain the following directives:
name=repository_name- where repository_name is a human-readable string describing the repository.
baseurl=repository_url- where repository_url is a URL to the directory where the
repodatadirectory of a repository is located:- If the repository is available over HTTP, use:
http://path/to/repo - If the repository is available over FTP, use:
ftp://path/to/repo - If the repository is local to the machine, use:
file:///path/to/local/repo - If a specific online repository requires basic HTTP authentication, you can specify your user name and password by prepending it to the URL as
username:password@link. For example, if a repository on http://www.example.com/repo/ requires a user name of “user” and a password of “password”, then thebaseurllink could be specified ashttp://.user:password@www.example.com/repo/
Usually this URL is an HTTP link, such as:baseurl=http://path/to/repo/releases/$releasever/server/$basearch/os/
Note that Yum always expands the$releasever,$arch, and$basearchvariables in URLs. For more information about Yum variables, see Section 8.4.3, “Using Yum Variables”.
Another useful
[repository] directive is the following:
enabled=value- where value is one of:
0— Do not include this repository as a package source when performing updates and installs. This is an easy way of quickly turning repositories on and off, which is useful when you desire a single package from a repository that you do not want to enable for updates or installs.1— Include this repository as a package source.Turning repositories on and off can also be performed by passing either the--enablerepo=repo_nameor--disablerepo=repo_nameoption toyum, or through the Add/Remove Software window of the PackageKit utility.
Many more
[repository] options exist. For a complete list, see the [repository] OPTIONS section of the yum.conf(5) manual page.
Example 8.6. A sample /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file
The following is a sample
/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file:
# # Red Hat Repositories # Managed by (rhsm) subscription-manager # [red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-file-system-for-rhel-6-entitlement-rpms] name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL 6 Entitlement) (RPMs) baseurl = https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/entitlement-6/releases/$releasever/$basearch/scalablefilesystem/os enabled = 1 gpgcheck = 1 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release sslverify = 1 sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/key.pem sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/11300387955690106.pem [red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-file-system-for-rhel-6-entitlement-source-rpms] name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL 6 Entitlement) (Source RPMs) baseurl = https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/entitlement-6/releases/$releasever/$basearch/scalablefilesystem/source/SRPMS enabled = 0 gpgcheck = 1 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release sslverify = 1 sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/key.pem sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/11300387955690106.pem [red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-file-system-for-rhel-6-entitlement-debug-rpms] name = Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (for RHEL 6 Entitlement) (Debug RPMs) baseurl = https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/entitlement-6/releases/$releasever/$basearch/scalablefilesystem/debug enabled = 0 gpgcheck = 1 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release sslverify = 1 sslcacert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/key.pem sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/11300387955690106.pem
