# Best Pattern for Installing RPMs **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 10, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-pattern-for-installing-rpms/13096 "2013-07-10T10:43:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Michael\_Ni](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Ni)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-pattern-for-installing-rpms/13096/1 "2013-07-10T10:43:55Z")
I’m new to Ansible so forgive me if I sound newbish. Ansible includes a yum module that works great. If I want to hand pick my rpms and install them, what is the best pattern to do so? By the way I’m on CentOS I can only think of 2 solutions and was wondering if anyone had a better solution 1.) create a yum repo (local or hosted) and use the yum module or 2.) write a playbook that will check if rpms are installed, if not download the rpm and install it. the problem with the first solution is, I will want to use custom rpms to create my yum repo with ansible. It is a chicken vs egg problem. regarding the second solution, I haven’t see anyone doing it that way. I want to keep my scripts 100% idempotent. Does anyone have any ideas? Mike ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-pattern-for-installing-rpms/13096/2 "2013-07-10T20:55:58Z")
“If I want to hand pick my rpms and install them, what is the best pattern to do so?” Create a local yum repo of those RPMs is the bestest way, and is super easy. mkdir directory createrepo directory make directory web accessible configure in yum.repos.d Obviously you could use get\_url + shell calling the RPM, but yum is so much better for this.