The Yellowdog Updater, Modfied (YUM) is an Open-source command line package-management utility for RPM based Linux systems. YUM allows automatic updates, package and dependency management.
This article helps you in YUM setup in RHEL enviroments
1. Create RPM directory
root@technix#mkdir /RPMS
2. Copy all the rpm packages from disk to “/RPMS" directory
3. Install createrepo rpm
root@technix#rpm -ivh createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm
4. createrepo
root@technix# createrepo /RPMS
5. create a local repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d
root@technix#vi /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
& save the below lines
[local]
name=RHEL-$releasever - Local
baseurl=file:///RPMS/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
6. Make yum Cache, by executing
root@technix#yum makecache
Enjoy software updates locally.