How to automatically generate a yum repo with Nexus

Add the yum capability in Nexus

• Point your browser to the Nexus instance: http://ci-01.cnaf.infn.it:8081/nexus and login with admin privileges.
• In Nexus administration, add the following capability: Yum: Generate Metadata selecting the correct repository (e.g. releases).
• Enable the capability

Upload an artifact

• On the selected repository select the Artifact upload tab
• Select Gav definition: Gav Parameters
• Select Auto Guess
• Click on Select Artifact(s) to upload and select one or more rpms by browsing the filesystem
• Fill in the Group field (e.g. org.glite)
• Click on Add Artifact
• Click on Upload Artifact(s)

The yum repo is automatically generated upon artifacts upload in the repository.

Use the yum repo

• Click on the capability Yum: Generate Metadata for the yum configuration file to be displayed
• On an SL6 machine, copy and paste the displayed yum configuration file in /etc/yum.repos.d/nexus.repo
• yum clean all
• yum makecache
• yum install _RPMNAMES_

-- FabioCapannini - 2013-05-14