[Yum] Can we use yum to update RHEL?

[jack jin]

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.

Jack
--- Brian Long <brilong at cisco.com> wrote:

> 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#)?
> 
> Jack,
> 
> We use yum to update over 5,000 RHEL machines after
> we pull down the
> RPMs from RHN and sanitize them, making our own yum
> repos.  Of course,
> we have an agreement with Red Hat where we sync up
> licensing every
> quarter.
> 
> Just download the yum-2.4.2 src.rpm and run rpmbuild
> --rebuild it.  
> 
> /Brian/
> 
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