[Yum] Can we use yum to update RHEL?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Jan 5 21:13:31 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:00 -0800, jack jin wrote:
> Hi:
> In order to update RPM for RHEL (WSv# or ASv#), we are
> using RHN.
> I wonder if we can use Yum to update RPM for RHEL. I
> checked Redhat website, and couldn’t found RPM for
> Redhat enterprise version, like wsv3 etc, they only
> provide SRPM, like below link:
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/
> They provide RPM for Redhat 7/8/9 and Fedora. 
> So can I get confirmation from here that we can’t use
> Yum for RHEL (wsv# or ASv#)?

you can use yum- but you have to create your own repositories of the
rhel packages. You can download all of the packages from rhn using
up2date but I'm fairly certain there is a licensing restriction on doing
that.

-sv





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