Yum repositories are essential for storing, managing, and delivering software to end systems.īefore taking a closer look at the repository metadata itself, let’s show how to get a repository setup by using the open source createrepo command line tool. Having a yum repository allows you to perform package install, removal, upgrade, and other operations on individual packages or groups of packages. We’ll cover what each index file means and take a look at how a user can inspect the metadata themselves.Ī yum repository is a collection of RPM packages with metadata that is readable by the yum command line tool.
This blog post will go into details on the internals of yum repositories by examining each of the index files created as part of yum repository’s metadata.
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