[Yum] Yum and RedHat Enterprise

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:44 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I found this post via Google.
> 
> I believe I understand what he's asking about... let me present
> another scenario:
> 
> We had to install RHEL for some EMC devices (long story).   The
> servers reside on backend RFC networks and have no outside
> connectivity (they never will).    They need a way to receive updates
> in a manageable fashion.
> 
> Personally, I prefer to use YUM... our other machines are CentOS
> based, and yum works fine.  To me, it seems easier to setup and
> manage.
> 
> Interestingly, "locate" finds this on RHEL4:
> 
>         /etc/log.d/scripts/services/yum
>         /etc/log.d/conf/services/yum.conf
>         /etc/log.d/conf/logfiles/yum.conf
>         /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.pyc
>         /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py
>         /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py
>         /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.pyc
> 
> I wonder if there is a way to have YUM utilize the RHN, without having
> to set up yet another repository.   I'm not much of a programmer, but
> these files make me think that it's possible.

no. Those are to make it possible for up2date to use yum repos.


> My overall goal is to create a mirror of CentOS' repository and
> configure our servers to "yum" from that.  I'd like to do similiarly
> for RHEL, if feasible.

There are some tools to download all the packages from rhn and make a
repo out of them. But nothing that directly does that from yum (at this
time)


-sv