I am using CentOS on a private network which can?t access the Internet so I want to create a local repository of packages on one or more DVDs, and get it installed on the private network. Someone had done this for CentOS 7, but not for CentOS 6. I have a VM running 6 so I am trying to create it for the previous major version. I thought there would be some obvious instructions on the preferred/recommended method for doing this, but I have failed to find them. Can anyone respond with any useful links on how best to do this or provide the recommended set of steps. I have seen various postings on this topic, but not anything official from the CentOS community. thanks much, Mark MARK H RICHER, MS CS Faculty Research Associate Computer Science Department Naval Postgraduate School - National Capital Region (NCR) 703-275-8533 (o) 571.303.9498 (m) mhricher at nps.edu<mailto:mhricher at nps.edu>
On 10/14/2015 04:49 PM, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote:> I am using CentOS on a private network which can?t access the Internet so I want to create a local repository of packages on one or more DVDs, and get it installed on the private network. Someone had done this for CentOS 7, but not for CentOS 6. I have a VM running 6 so I am trying to create it for the previous major version. I thought there would be some obvious instructions on the preferred/recommended method for doing this, but I have failed to find them. > > Can anyone respond with any useful links on how best to do this or provide the recommended set of steps. I have seen various postings on this topic, but not anything official from the CentOS community. > > thanks much, > MarkFor CentOS-7 this is quite easy, mount the everything ISO and point to it. (Note, it is TOO BIG to fit on a DVD, so it needs to be on a thumb drive .. something that will hold at least 7.2 GB) We roll a new ISO every month, you can get the latest one here: http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/ Currently CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1509-01.iso For 6, it is a bit harder, but not overly hard. Pick a mirror that is close from here: https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ Rsync the /6/ tree from that mirror, excluding the ISOs if you do not want them. As an example, I will pick the mirrors.kernel.org for this example ... this command: rsync mirrors.kernel.org::centos/6/ shows this results: drwxr-xr-x 27 2014/10/19 16:36:15 SCL drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/07/28 04:57:54 centosplus drwxrwxr-x 27 2015/05/18 11:02:50 cloud drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 contrib drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/05 07:44:48 cr drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 extras drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 fasttrack drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/10 11:56:29 isos drwxr-xr-x 42 2015/07/25 08:20:23 os drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/03 05:39:35 updates drwxr-xr-x 27 2014/10/19 16:36:15 xen4 So, you can exlude all except the trees you want, and rsync the rest. Put the os and updates directories (also bigger than 4.7 GB) on a drive and mount it somewhere on the other network. You can also do the same thing with the 7/ directory. With both the 6 or 7 directories, you just use apache to show the directories and and update from them by pointing to that location on your remote network. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20151014/182259dd/attachment-0001.sig>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:> On 10/14/2015 04:49 PM, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote: > > I am using CentOS on a private network which can?t access the Internet > so I want to create a local repository of packages on one or more DVDs, and > get it installed on the private network. Someone had done this for CentOS > 7, but not for CentOS 6. I have a VM running 6 so I am trying to create it > for the previous major version. I thought there would be some obvious > instructions on the preferred/recommended method for doing this, but I have > failed to find them. > > > > Can anyone respond with any useful links on how best to do this or > provide the recommended set of steps. I have seen various postings on this > topic, but not anything official from the CentOS community. > > > > thanks much, > > Mark > > For CentOS-7 this is quite easy, mount the everything ISO and point to > it. (Note, it is TOO BIG to fit on a DVD, so it needs to be on a thumb > drive .. something that will hold at least 7.2 GB) > > We roll a new ISO every month, you can get the latest one here: > > http://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/ > > Currently CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1509-01.iso > > For 6, it is a bit harder, but not overly hard. Pick a mirror that is > close from here: > > https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ > > Rsync the /6/ tree from that mirror, excluding the ISOs if you do not > want them. As an example, I will pick the mirrors.kernel.org for this > example ... this command: > > rsync mirrors.kernel.org::centos/6/ > > shows this results: > > drwxr-xr-x 27 2014/10/19 16:36:15 SCL > drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/07/28 04:57:54 centosplus > drwxrwxr-x 27 2015/05/18 11:02:50 cloud > drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 contrib > drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/05 07:44:48 cr > drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 extras > drwxr-xr-x 42 2014/10/19 16:36:15 fasttrack > drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/10 11:56:29 isos > drwxr-xr-x 42 2015/07/25 08:20:23 os > drwxrwxr-x 42 2015/08/03 05:39:35 updates > drwxr-xr-x 27 2014/10/19 16:36:15 xen4 > > > So, you can exlude all except the trees you want, and rsync the rest. > > Put the os and updates directories (also bigger than 4.7 GB) on a drive > and mount it somewhere on the other network. > > You can also do the same thing with the 7/ directory. > > With both the 6 or 7 directories, you just use apache to show the > directories and and update from them by pointing to that location on > your remote network. > >Re: the last paragraph, it isn't necessary to use apache. You can just specify the mounted location of the rsync'ed directories in your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (or whatever else you need) using the baseurl=file://(location). E.g: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base # Comment out the "mirrorlist" line so yum doesn't try to use the network #mirrorlisthttp://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os # baseurl=file:///disk/linux/CO6/os/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///disk/linux/CO6/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 (etc.) -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu