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6.2. Managing Software Repositories
When a system is subscribed to the Red Hat Content Delivery Network, a repository file is created in the
/etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. To verify that, use yum to list all enabled repositories:
yum repolist
Red Hat Subscription Management also allows you to manually enable or disable software repositories provided by Red Hat. To list all available repositories, use the following command:
subscription-manager repos --list
The repository names depend on the specific version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux you are using and are in the following format:
rhel-variant-rhscl-version-rpms rhel-variant-rhscl-version-debug-rpms rhel-variant-rhscl-version-source-rpms
Where variant is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system variant (
server or workstation), and version is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system version (6 or 7), for example:
rhel-server-rhscl-6-eus-rpms rhel-server-rhscl-6-eus-source-rpms rhel-server-rhscl-6-eus-debug-rpms
To enable a repository, enter a command as follows:
subscription-manager repos --enable repository
Replace repository with a name of the repository to enable.
Similarly, to disable a repository, use the following command:
subscription-manager repos --disable repository
Section 8.4, “Configuring Yum and Yum Repositories” provides detailed information about managing software repositories using yum.
