[Yum] RHEL 3, 4, SUSE Updates

Lance Davis lance at uklinux.net
Sun Feb 27 00:35:58 UTC 2005


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Matt Heaton wrote:

> This is Matt with Bluehost.com.  We are a hosting company that currently 
> has about 80 Mbits of Bandwidth
> that goes idle between 6pm - 10 am everyday.  We use Red Hat Enterprise 
> 3 and 4 and compile updates
> ourselves and run our own up2date server.  I would like to provide FREE 
> updates for the community for RHEL 3,4
> and SUSE using YUM instead.  I want to provide a simply RPM for SUSE and 
> Redhat that will then use our own
> Yum server to keep these systems current.  Is this feasable with Yum?  
> My specific questions are.
> 
> 1) If I compile the RPMs from source for RHEL 3 and 4 will the Yum 
> server/client pick up the naming conventions
> properly and update all my packages?  I know this is how Whitebox and 
> Centos do it, but is it a generic Yum install or
> is it a modified one?
> 
> 2) Is there anyone out there in the community that has experience in 
> this exact situation that would like to be paid $$$
> for helping get us in the right direction?  If so please email back to 
> admin at bluehost.com or call Matt Heaton at
> (801) 836-7666
> 
> 3) Am I duplicating someone elses work?  I don't believe there are any 
> free RHEL 3 or 4, or SUSE update sites out there?
> I have plenty of free bandwidth which is normally not the case and so I 
> want to help ourselves and everyone else without
> paying Redhat for every updated machine on my network?

Matt,

CentOS have rebuilds of rhel 3 and 4 (in rc) with timely updates available 
via yum.

These will work with rhel as well ...

see www.centos.org for details.

The problem with producing redhat versions without modification is that 
you are very likely to fall foul of redhat trademark/copyright 
redistribution restrictions.

We however welcome people that want to become part of the CentOS team and 
would certainly welcome your input, especially as a freebuild of Suse 
would be very interesting.

Bandwidth is also always useful.

Lance

(CentOS project leader)

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