On 14 October 2015 at 13:01, Carpenter, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Is is possible to create an EPEL CD for installation of packages onto > standalone systems not connected to the internet? > >
It is possible for you to do so, but not for us. Because EPEL is a rolling release area, there is no frozen or set that you can say is "EPEL-2.0" , EPEL-3.0 etc. At best a snapshot would be possible but we run into a second issue. EPEL is larger than a Because EPEL isn't "released" per se there isn't a way we could create a DVD that [smooge@batcave01 epel]$ du -shc ./5 ./6 ./7 22G ./5 50G ./6 32G ./7 103G total That is several (hundred) cdroms of data. So instead what I normally do for secure networks is the following: 1. Make a localized mirror of the epel infrastructure. 2. Take the packages that are needed for the internal services and put into a parallel tree in the size limit of the read only storage medium I am going to use (DVD, Blueray, CDrom) 3. in the tree of packages that I am going copy use createrepo to build up the trees that yum will use to repoquery. 4. create a repo file with an updated baseurl like baseurl=file:///mnt/dvd/myprivaterepo/ 5. mkisofs of the tree. 6. cut the dvd and send to ISO/ISSM group for review. On remote system, put in the dvd and mount ot say /mnt/dvd and copy the repo to your /etc/yum.repos.d/myepel.repo And you can install packages from that private repo on a network free system. [For large repos I end up making just large trees of files in multiple dvds and then copy into something like /home/myepel/ and then doing the createrepo on the local system.] > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
