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Yum Repo Plugins

April 2, 2020

Here’s how to disable plugin in Yum repos.

# check which plugins are enabled
yum repolist
# disable plugins
yum update --disableplugin=product-id,subscription-manager
# check agin
yum repolist

If that doesn’t work, check the individual config files of each plugin.

cd /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/
vim product-id.conf
vim subscription-manager.conf

Disable it.

[main]
enable=0

Yum Add Repo Manually

August 5, 2019

Add a yum repo manually by adding a configuration file in /etc/yum.repo.d/ directory.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
vi newrepo

Add the following.

[newrepo]
name=New Repo for RHEL/ CentOS $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://newrepo.domain.com/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://newrepo.domain.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

You may need to import the key.

rpm --import http://newrepo.domain.com/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

Finally, test the new repo by running the following.

yum update -y
yum install new-package

Yum Remove Repo

February 19, 2019

How to remove repos in Yum. Just delete the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d.

rm /etc/yum.repos.d/repo-name.repo

Cloning A GCP Repo

August 3, 2018

Here are the steps on how to clone a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) repository. This is assuming you already installed Google Cloud SDK.

gcloud init
gcloud source repos clone name_of_repo --project=project_name
cd name_of_repo
git commit -a -m "your comment"
git push -u origin master