OCI - How To Create a Yum Channel Entry for Oracle Linux 6 Extended Support (ELS)

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Goal:

To create a yum config entry for Oracle Linux 6 Extended Support (ELS) on Oracle OCI

Solution:

NOTE: This configuration is for yum only, OSMS is configured differently. Please refer to document below for the OSMS procedure.

https://community.oracle.com/customerconnect/discussion/641881/oci-how-to-add-oracle-linux-6-els-software-sources-in-osms 

The easiest and recommended method would be to install the ELS package:

# yum install oraclelinux-els-release-el6.noarch

This will create the /etc/yum.repos.d/oraclelinux-els-ol6.repo file for you and which contains the enabled ELS channel. That package can be found in the already existing [ol6_oci_included] channel.

Alternatively, to create a yum channel config entry manually: