[Yum] Up2date in RHEL 5

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:13 -0400, Nick wrote:
> In RHEL4 (and earlier I think), the  --channel parameter (see below) specified
> from which channel the updates would be downloaded.  I could then maintain a
> list of current RPMs for several RHEL versions on one computer.
> 
> up2date --channel rhel-i386-ws-3 --showall
> 
> I tried installing the RHEL4 up2date rpm, but it conflicts with
> rhn-client-tools.
> 
> Any ideas on how to access the up2date repo's for RHEL4 and earlier in RHEL5?
> 
> Can yum do this?
> 

if the channels are exposed to the client in rhn then you should be able
to get to them as repos in yum. Though I'm not sure how the rhn_plugin
in rhel5 exposes non-default channels. You might want to ask on the
rhel5 lists about this in particular.

-sv