RHEL RPM Downloader

RHEL rpm repository downloader and http web server. Useful for offline mirroring of RHEL RPM packages.

These scripts contains the downloader for rpm repositories and the http web-server for hosting the rpm repositories. The downloader will download the rpm repositories listed in repolist for RHEL-7 or CentOS-7. For other versions of RHEL, do update the Dockerfile-downloader-rhel according to your desired version. The 2nd service will then serve the rpm repository with nginx.

• Tested on Docker-Desktop for Windows

Requisites

• Online connection
• Ensure download-repo.sh and repolist are in LF line ending formats
• (Optional): Update repolist with your required rpm repos using it's Repo ID, separated by newlines. You may refer to here for instructions on retrieving the Repo ID from Red Hat. If ./repolist is empty, it will download all repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d/*

Further requisites for RHEL-7

• Redhat account with relevant subscriptions (RHEL subscription)
• Update CHANGE_ME fields with the required inputs (username/password for Redhat)
• Change the docker-compose to point to ./Dockerfile-downloader-rhel instead.

To view the Repo IDs available

• Make sure to fulfil the requisites
• docker-compose build

For Rhel

• docker run --rm rhel-rpm-downloader-and-server-rpm-download subscription-manager repos to find the list of applicable Repo IDs for the RHEL repos.

For CentOs

• or docker run --rm rhel-rpm-downloader-and-server-rpm-download yum repolist -y for non-Redhat repositories. The repoId is listed under the repo id col, use the name only without the parts seperated by the /.

To download and serve

• Run docker-compose up --build
• View your downloaded files in ./rpm
  • The file structure should be:
    • ./rpm
      • ./rpm/repodata
      • ./rpm/<REPO_ID_1>
      • ./rpm/<REPO_ID_2>
• The 2nd docker service will serve the rpm repository with nginx at port 80 / http

To add other non-standard yum repos

For repos that are not available in Redhat's repositories. You will need to add them into the Docker image manually. This can be done by manually editing Dockerfile-downloader.

...
# Any other non-standard yum repositories ...
## FOR NVIDIA CONTAINER TOOLKIT REPO ...

distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID) \
   && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/$distribution/libnvidia-container.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.repo