yum is a tool used to manage rpm packages in distributions like RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc. Most know feature of yum is using repositories in order to manage packages download and resolve dependencies. In this tutorial, we will examine the yum repository configuration.
List Yum Repository Configurations
yum repositories are stored as files with related configuration. These configuration files are stored in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . We can list currently created repositories with ls command like below.
$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
Repository Configuration Files
Each of these configuration files holds some configuration a single or multiple branches. A single repository may have multiple different branches for different purposes. We can list configuration with cat command like below. We will print the repository fedora.repo .
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
There are different confugration options.
nameis the name of the repofailovermethodused what will be done if there is a problembaseurlis the URL to download repository database and informationmetalinkis the URL the metadata of the repositoryenabledspecified whether this repository is enabled and usable. We can disable if we do not want to use further.metadata_expirespecifies how long the downloaded metadata is fresh and useablepgpcheckis a security mechanism which checks package is altered or created by the repository owner.gpgkeyis the GPG key file path
Add New Yum Repository
There are different ways to add a yum repository. We can use yum command to add repository too. We will use localinstall command and provide the rpm URL with --nogpgcheck option like below.
$ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rp
Top External Third Party Repositories
Here we will list 3rd party yum repositories which is very useful.
- https://rpmfusion.org/
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
- https://blog.remirepo.net/
- http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
- https://webtatic.com/