Local Linux YUM repository for ISO image

The initiative of this setup is basically started when I find the PERL RPM package (needed by VMware Tools) is not installed on my Virtual Machine by default, which prevents me from continuing doing my VMware HA VM Monitoring Lab.

If you are sick of RPM installation inter-dependencies and are lazy (like me) to setup an apache instance for YUM, please continue to read. ;-)

• Mount the RHEL 6 ISO image

• # mkdir -p /mnt/iso/1
• # mount -o loop /dev/sr0 /mnt/iso/1
• # cd /mnt/iso/1/Packages
• # yum install createrepo-0.9.8-4.el6.noarch.rpm python-deltarpm-3.5-0.5.20090913git.el6.i686.rpm deltarpm-3.5-0.5.20090913git.el6.i686.rpm

• Create the repository

• # cd /mnt/iso; createrepo .
• # ......
• # ...... # Please take a cup of coffee
• # ......
• # yum clean all

• Populate the repo file
• # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
• # echo -e "[iso]\nbaseurl=file:///mnt/iso\nenabled=1" > iso.repo
• # yum install perl

• Import the public key for RPM

• Error shows when you run yum install perl
• Public key for perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-119.el6.i686.rpm is not installed
• Fix it as follows:
• cd /mnt/iso/1
• rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
• yum install perl