[Yum] Can we use yum to update RHEL?

Ohad.Levy at infineon.com Ohad.Levy at infineon.com
Mon Jan 9 10:47:06 UTC 2006


A free and legal way would be not to use/recreate the anaconda and
redhat-logos package.
By using yum, we achieve 100% compatibility with RHE3/4 without paying
anything to redhat (only one single machine to download the patches for
each arch).

With yum 2.4x you have quite a lot of deps problem (if you want to use
it with RH3) and than you have to maintain multiple packages (for RH and
maybe fedora/centos - for example libxml package) - so we ended up using
yum 2.0


-----Original Message-----
From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu
[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Long
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:13 PM
To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
Subject: Re: [Yum] Can we use yum to update RHEL?

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:13 -0800, jack jin wrote:
> Hi, Brain:
> Thanks for your information.
> I wonder if you can't bypass RHN, i.e. you can't take
> advantage of Yum's free of charge (save of license
> fee), why don't you use RHN Satellite server to
> maintain the RPM update? RHN satellite server seems
> has more control functions than Yum.

This has been a political battle with Red Hat.  We are already paying
for the updates via our license fee, so we don't want to pay extra for
RHN Satellite  :)  Also, we don't want to maintain a RHN Satellite
server (overhead, etc).

We are using my patched up2date to bring down the RHN updates on a
single machine:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162210

/Brian/

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