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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

You're reading from   Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook Over 60 recipes to help you build, configure, and orchestrate RHEL 7 Server to make your everyday administration experience seamless

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392017
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jakub Gaj Jakub Gaj
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Preface 1. Working with KVM Guests FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying RHEL "En Masse" 3. Configuring Your Network 4. Configuring Your New System 5. Using SELinux 6. Orchestrating with Ansible 7. Puppet Configuration Management 8. Yum and Repositories 9. Securing RHEL 7 10. Monitoring and Performance Tuning Index

Configuring additional repositories


Whether you create your own mirror repository or organizations provide software for you in repositories, setting up additional repositories on your RHEL system is quite simple. This recipe will show you how to set them up. Many repositories have their own repo files or even an RPM that automatically installs the repository. When these are available, don't hesitate to use them!

Getting ready

For this to work, you will need to have a repository set up, which can be accessed through the following URL: http://repo.example.com/myrepo/7/x86_64.

How to do it…

In order to create an additional repository, create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called myrepo.repo, which contains the following information:

[myrepo]
name=My Personal Repository
baseurl=http://repo.example.com/myrepo/$releasever/$basearch
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

There's more…

The gpgcheck=1 option only functions if you or the provider of a repo has signed all the RPMs in the repo. This is generally a good practice...

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