Parliament Hill Computers Ltd

 

RPM Repository for CentOS 5

The packages are an eclectic mix of programs that I have found useful enough to install on several machines.

To see what there is list of contents.

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How to use it

You can access the repo either by using Yum or Rsync (probably in combination with mrepo).

Using Yum

You need to:

1. create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/phcl.repo with the contents:

       # Parliament Hill Computers Ltd - CentOS repository
       [phcl]
       name=PHCL for CentOS-$releasever
       baseurl=http://www.phcomp.co.uk/Software/centos$releasever-$basearch/RPMS.phcl/
       gpgcheck=1
       protect=0
       gpgkey=http://www.phcomp.co.uk/Software/RPM-GPG-KEY-PHCL-CentOS-5
   

2. Clean out the yum cache (recommended):

       yum clean all
   

3. Install packages with:

       yum install package-name
   

Using Rsync

You can browse the repository with rsync like this:

    rsync rsync://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads/

Once you have found what you want download a specific RPM with something like:

    rsync rsync://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads/centos5-x86_64/phcl/KeepAlive-1.1-1.1.x86_64.rpm .

Using mrepo

mrepo is a way of maintaining an RPM repository.

You will already have a suitable file in /etc/mrepo.conf.d/, you append this line:

    phcl = rsync://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads/centos$release-$arch/phcl/

and fetch and build with:

    mrepo -qug

Then follow the Using Yum instructions above, but change the baseurl to point to your server.