[Yum] Yum and RedHat Enterprise

[Lawrence, Steve]

Depends. If you're looking to replace RHN with something 'else' out
there because you're not licensed, then you're pretty much on your own.
There's an 'enterprising soul' out there who's got a repository for RHEL
which is built from the source rpm's, but a) it'll cost you some small
amount of dollars/month, and b) If you're running a production machine
I'd be rather dubious about downloading RHEL patches from anyone other
than RH. (apologies to the enterprising soul).

If you're looking to patch a large number of machines and don't want 

A) to saturate your bandwidth
B) some of your machines to be connected to the internet at all
C) to adminster your machines from RHN's interface
D) <insert other thing>

You can create a repository of your own. BUT... you need to download the
binaries from RHN.

Essentially you have to create your own repository by downloading all
the binaries from one of your licensed servers, then distribute them out
to your other servers via yum.

You can do this with a bit of judicial scripting around a command
similar to the following :

up2date --nox --showall --channel \"rhel-i386-es-3 \"

Slap all the rpm's into a directory run yum-arch / createrepo on it,
then have all your other machines point to your repository.

Bob's yer uncle.

S.



-----Original Message-----
From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu
[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Peter M. Abraham
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:50 PM
To: yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu
Subject: [Yum] Yum and RedHat Enterprise


Greetings:

I apologize if this has been covered before; but can you use Yum to keep

RedHat Enterprise up to date rather than RHN?

If so, what repositories should one use?

Thank you.

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