How do I update YUM repositories?

Question

I am very, very new to all this so baby steps please if helping is appreciated.

I am trying to connect to the following repository so I can update my YUM packages: http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/SRPMS/

honestly I have no idea how to do that from SSH though - any guidance is very appreciative.

Answer 1

The instructions are listed at: http://www.webtatic.com/projects/yum-repository/

rpm -ivh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/`uname -i`/webtatic-release-5-0.noarch.rpm

Answer 2

Yum downloads the package lists automatically, and the repositories are configured in files under /etc/yum.repos.d. Furthermore, it does not download source RPMs, see: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq#Q.14:HowcanItellyumtodownloadasourcepackagei.e.a.src.rpmfile

A minimal repo file for that site would look something like this:

[webtatic]
name=CentOS-5 - Webtatic.com
baseurl=http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/$basearch/

Answer 3

First you have to setup the repository in a configuration file for yum. Create the repo configuration like this:

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# nano Webtatic

Insert something like this in the file

[webtatic] 
name=Webtatic repo
baseurl=http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/SRPMS/
enabled=1 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-webtatic-andy

Save and close the file. Then you import the key for the repo:

# rpm --import http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-webtatic-andy

At this point the repository is added to yum. Now you only need to use it.

# yum update