Create a channel in the web ui: Channels -> Manage Channels -> Create Software ChannelChannel Name*: EPEL for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Channel Label*: epel_rhel6_x86_64 Parent Channel: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64) Parent Channel Architecture: x86_64 Yum Repository Checksum Type: sha1 Channel Summary*: EPEL Repository Create a new repo in the web ui: Channels -> Manage Repositories -> Create new repositoryRepository Label* epel_repo_rhel6_x86_64 Repository URL* http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6Server/x86_64/ Sync the repo from the command linespacewalk-repo-sync -c epel_rhel6_x86_64 -u http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6Server/x86_64/ Clients will need to have the key for epel. In snippets add something likerpm --import https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6