RPM Remote Repositories

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Artifactory remote repositories support RPMs out of the box, and there is no need for any special configuration in order to work with RPMs in a remote repository.

All you need to do is point your YUM client at the remote repository, and you are ready to use YUM with Artifactory.

To define a remote repository to proxy an RPM remote repository, follow the steps below:

  1. In the Administration module under Repositories | Repositories | Remote, click New Remote Repository to create a new remote repository.

  2. Set the Repository Key, and specify the URL to the remote registry in the URL field. When using a Yum client, use the URL of the folder containing your /repodata folder- for example, http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/.

    Note

    Running docker pull centos:latest will return CentOS 8, which has reached End of Life. To use CentOS, pull a supported version: for a list of supported versions, see CentOS Mirror. If you need to use CentOS 8, you can do so by changing the URL in the URL field to https://vault.centos.org/.

  3. Click Save & Finish.

  4. Back in the Platform | Artifactory | Artifacts module, in the Tree Browser, select the repository. Note that in the Tree Browser, the repository name is appended with -cache.

  5. Click Set Me Up and copy the value of the baseurl tag.

    Note

    For CentOS 8 users, edit or create the following files with root privileges:

    • sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-AppStream.repo

    • sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-BaseOS.repo

  6. Next, create the /etc/yum.repos.d/ targetCentos.repo file and paste the following configuration into it:

    [targetCentos]
name=targetCentos
baseurl=http://localhost:8081/artifactory/targetCentos/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0