Some repositories provide a conﬁguration ﬁle and GPG public key as part of an RPM package that can be downloaded and installed using the yum localinstall command.

RPM Conﬁguration Packages for Local Repositories Gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 Administrators should download the key to a local ﬁle rather than allowing yum to retrieve the key from an external source. Keys are stored in various locations on the remote repository site, such as. Modify this ﬁle to provide customized values and location of a GPG key. The following command creates a ﬁle named /etc//dl._pub_epel_8_x86_64_.repo with the output shown: ~]$ yum-config-manager -add-repo='' Creating Yum RepositoriesĬreate Yum repositories with the yum-config-manager command. The repository deﬁnition contains the URL of the repository, a name, whether to use GPG to check the package signatures and if so, the URL pointing to the trusted GPG key. Repository conﬁguration ﬁles must end with a. To enable support for a new third-party repository, create a ﬁle in the /etc// directory. In a Red Hat classroom, the classroom server hosts Yum repositories. For example, Adobe provides some of its software for Linux through a Yum repository. Non-Red Hat sources provide software through third-party repositories, which can be accessed by the yum command from a website, FTP server, or the local ﬁle system. = repo: rhel-8-server-debug-rpms =īase_persistdir = /var/lib/yum/repos/x86_64/8ServerĬachedir = /var/cache/yum/x86_64/8Server/rhel-8-server-debug-rpms ~]$ yum-config-manager -enable rhel-8-server-debug-rpms For example, the following command enables the rhel-8-server-debug-rpms repository: To enable a repository, the command sets the enabled parameter to 1. The yum-config-manager command can be used to enable or disable repositories. Rhel-8-server-source-rpms/8Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server (Source RPMs) disabled Rhel-8-server-rpms/8Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server (RPMs) enabled: 5,071 Rhel-8-server-debug-rpms/8Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Server (Debug RPMs) disabled To view all available repositories: ~]$ yum repolist all Registering a system to the subscription management service automatically conﬁgures access to software repositories based on the attached subscriptions.

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