Creating a Yum repository and accessing it over SSHFS
Quick notes on how to create a Yum repository and mount it over SSHFS as a local repo.
On the server side (that is where the Yum repo actually lives):
1. Install the "createrepo" package:
yum install createrepo -y
2. Create a directory to use as the repo container:
mkdir -pv /yumrepo
3. Copy RPMs into the repo directory:
cp /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*.rpm /yumrepo/
4. Index the files:
createrepo /yumrepo
On the client side:
1. Install the EPEL repo and the fuse-sshfs package:
yum install epel-release -y
yum install fuse-sshfs -y
2. Create a directory to use as mountpoint:
mkdir -pv /mnt/yum-sshfs
3. Mount the SSH share (for this to work key-based authentication must be setup already!)
sshfs root@10.42.226.2:/yumrepo /mnt/yum-sshfs
4. Add a yum configuration /etc/yum.repos.d/sshfs.repo:
[sshfs-repo]
name=SSHFS repo
baseurl=file:///mnt/yum-sshfs
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
5. Test - you should get the list of available packages:
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sshfs-repo list available