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I host a local mirror of Centos5 and Cento6 to run updates of our servers. I do not update them regularly, though, to provide a stable environment for our production servers. However there are times when I would like to update one specific package (like Bash right now). I have the new RPMs in the proper folder, but when I run yum update on one of my servers, even after a yum clean all. I'm guessing yum uses the repomd.xml file to determine whether anything needs updated, I haven't had any luck so far.

Does anyone know how to get the yum repo to reflect the new RPMs I have added in?

Aaron R.
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You need to create the metadata. In the dir with the RPMS for example run

 createrepo .
Mike
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  • Yes! That works. For the record, I ran it within the RPMS directory and that didn't work. It re-creates the `repodata` folder, so I needed to go up one directory for it to work correctly. It takes a while to run, too. – Aaron R. Sep 29 '14 at 17:15
  • for which dir you run it in depends on how your yum repo file is setup – Mike Sep 29 '14 at 17:48