How to create a local RHEL/CentOS repo

Here are the steps you need to create a local repo using the installation media for RHEL/CentOS.

insert cd in to optical drive

mount /dev/cdrom /media

cp -uRav /media/* /repo

once complete modify /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel.repo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel.repo

insert the following text into the file

[rhel]

name=rhel repo

baseurl=file:///repo

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

save changes and exit

run the following commands

yum clean all

yum list available