[Yum] RHN and Yum

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:06 -0500, Joanna Green wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 22:06 -0500, Jack Neely wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > > 
> > > So, apperently, that big, long traceback was urllib2's way of telling me
> > > that it doesn't like non-string headers.
> > > 
> > > Attached is an actual working rhn.py.  It can query and fetch files from
> > > either Current (which I found some neat protocall brokenness in) and
> > > RHN/RHN Proxies.
> > > 
> > 
> > cool. Now to get it working so we can use it from yum.
> > 
> > -sv
> >   
> 
> Did you guys get this to work?  The reason I am asking....
> 
> We maintain a local yum repository.  Yum has been working great.
> Starting to get RH Enterprise boxes now.  Updates for these boxes take
> hours and hours. Its ridiculous. Sometimes the update process just
> hangs.  Not sure if it is a firewall issue on our end or their end.
> Would like to update these boxes with yum.  Have no interest in
> circumventing licenses as we would have the IG breathing down our
> necks.  Am able to use up2date via RHN and store rpms to a directory
> which could be used for a  yum repository.  Problem is, we can only
> download updates for the box we have the license on.  Would like to
> download updates for all architectures (x86_64, i386).  So how can we
> do that without having a bunch of boxes around just for the updates.
> There must be  a nifty neato way to do this.  Was wondering if the
> above rhn.py would help out.....
> 


check this out.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-December/msg00257.html


-sv