Local Yum repository to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

1) Mount the dvd in /mnt/dvd path.

2) Install the createrepo RPM from the RHEL 5.2 DVD ( which I have mounted to /mnt/dvd ).

# rpm -ivh /mnt/dvd/Server/createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm

# cd /mnt

# createrepo .

3) Create the YUM repository pointing back at the newly created repository metadata.


# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/dvdrhel.repo
[MailRepo]
name=MailRepo
baseurl=file:///mnt/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

4) Update YUM to have it pick up the new repository.

# yum clean

5) Test by listing the available packages.

# yum list