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Offline Repository Procedure for CentOS 7

Revision as of 17:20, 13 June 2018 by Luc Morissette (talk | contribs) (Removed some instructions. Something is not working with the permanent mount point: we get a "failed to mount /repo/centos/7" and the unit does not start.)


This page shows how to configure CentOS packages manager for a system that does not have access to Telcobridges repository (no internet access).

Download TelcoBridges repository

Download the .iso image of TelcoBridges repository on a machine that have access to the system. 

http://repo.telcobridges.com/centos/7/isos/x86_64/tb_centos7_x86_64_repo.iso (File size on 2018.06: 7GB)

Upload TelcoBridges repository to the system

Upload the .iso file to the "/root" directory of the system with scp or a SFTP tool like FileZilla

Mount the .iso file on the system

Mount the .iso file on your system 

# mkdir -p /repo/centos/7
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /root/tb_centos7_x86_64_repo.iso /repo/centos/7

Change TelcoBridges repository file

Edit the TB-Base.repo file 

# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/TB-Base.repo

Change [tb-base] baseurl line to: 

baseurl=file:///repo/centos/7/os/$basearch/

Update CentOS 7

# yum clean metadata
# yum update
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