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As systems are subscribed to products, the associated content repositories (identified in the entitlement certificate) are made available to the system. The content repositories are based on the product and on the content delivery network, defined in the baseurl parameter of the rhsm.conf file.
A subscription may include access to optional content channels along with the default channels. These optional channels must be enabled before the packages in them can be installed (even if the system is fully entitled to the products in those channels).
List all available repos for the system, including disabled repos.
[root@server ~]# yum repolist all
repo id repo name status
rhel-6-server Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server - enabled
rhel-6-server-beta Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Be enabled
rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Op disabled
rhel-6-server-supplementary Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Su disabled
The optional and supplementary channels are named rhel-6-server-optional-rpms and rhel-6-server-supplementary, respectively.
Using Subscription-Manager
Subscription-Manager provides it's own utility to enable & disable repositories within the redhat.repo file:
To see a list of available repositories:
[root@server ~]# subscription-manager repos --list
To enable a specific repository:
[root@server ~]# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
To disable a specific repository:
[root@server ~]# subscription-manager repos --disable=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
Using Yum-Utils provided yum-config-manager:
The repositories can be enabled using the yum-config-manager command, which is provided with the yum-utils package:
[root@server ~]# yum install -y yum-utils
[root@server ~]# yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
Alternatively, simply specify the optional or supplementary repository when installing a package with yum. This uses the –enablerepo repo_name option. For example:
# yum install rubygems --enablerepo=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
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Disabling the Subscription-Manager Repository
When a system is registered using Subscription-Manager, the rhsmcertd process creates a special yum repository — redhat.repo. As “Enabling Supplementary and Optional Repositories” describes, as the system adds subscriptions, the product channels are added to the redhat.repo file.
Maintaining a redhat.repo file may not be desirable in some environments. It can create static in content management operations if that repository is not the one actually used for subscriptions, such as for a disconnected system or a system using a local content mirror.
This default redhat.repo repository can be disabled by editing the Subscription-Manager configuration and setting the manage_repos value to zero (0).
[root@server1 ~]# subscription-manager config --rhsm.manage_repos=0
More information: [https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Subscription_Management/1/html/RHSM/entitlements-and-yum.html](Working with yum Repos)
Also note, when making to make sure you don't having missing dependencies and to ensure you don't have other conflicts run the following:
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