How to Build Your Own HTTP and FTP Yum Repository: Step‑by‑Step Guide

Yum Repository Experiment

HTTP Yum Repository

Environment Preparation

1. Two machines: one as the server, one as the client.

2. Disable the firewall on both machines.

3. The server provides the installation packages.

4. Write the repository configuration on the client.

Server Configuration

1. Install and start the httpd service.

2. Mount the CD/DVD device.

Server configuration completed.

Client Configuration

1. Adjust the Yum directory.

# Create a folder named bak and move all files ending with repo into it.

2. Write the repository configuration file.

# Download from server 192.168.116.10.

3. Clean the environment.

4. Create repository metadata.

5. Client configuration completed; attempt to download.

# Installation successful, experiment finished.

FTP Yum Repository

Environment Preparation

Same steps as the HTTP repository: two machines, firewall disabled, server provides packages, client writes configuration.

Server Configuration

1. Install and start the vsftpd service.

2. Create a folder ky33 under /var/ftp.

3. Mount the CD/DVD device to /var/ftp/ky33.

# Server configuration completed.

Client Configuration

1. Adjust the Yum directory.

2. Write the repository configuration file.

# Point the path to the server's ky33 directory.

3. Clean the Yum environment.

4. Create repository metadata.

5. Client configuration completed; attempt to download.

# Installation successful, experiment finished.

Useful Yum Commands

yum list          # show all available packages
yum info          # display package information
yum search ftp    # search for packages containing "ftp" (fuzzy search)
yum provides ftp  # find which package provides a command
yum history       # view all Yum operations
undo               # undo the last operation
redo               # redo an undone operation
yum remove <package_name>  # uninstall a single package
# Repository groups
base   # basic repository
extra   # extra repository
epel    # third‑party repository
update  # update repository metadata