Setup yum repository from a linux iso shared on remote windows machine

1. Mount remote windows share on linux system

In general, a useful stuff – specially when important software-installers are stored on a windows share. It can be useful to mount the windows share on your linux system to use it efficiently.

Following are the steps:

• Login to Linux as root user
• > mkdir /mtn/winshare 
• > mount -t cifs //<windows-machine-IP-addr>/<folder-path/ -o username=<user>,password=<pw> /mnt/winshare (For RHEL > 4)
• > mount -t smbfs //<windows-machine-IP-addr>/<folder-path/ -o username=<user>,password=<pw> /mnt/winshare (For RHEL < 4)

2. Extract Files from iso image and create yum repository

• > mkdir -p /mnt/iso/{1,2,3}
• > mount -o loop /mnt/winshare/disk.iso /mnt/iso/1
• > rpm -ivh  /mnt/iso/1/Packages/<createrepo-package-name>.rpm
• > cd /mnt/iso
• > createrepo .
• > yum clean all

3. Create yum repository configuration file

• > vi /etc/yum.repos.d/iso.repo
• Place following text in iso.repo

           [iso] 

           name=My ISO Repo

           baseurl=file:///mnt/iso
           enabled=1

           gpgcheck=0 

Now you should be able to install any package from iso using yum.

- Sarang Anajwala