On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 07:53 -0800, MJang wrote: > Folks, > > One more yum related question - just took a look at the RHUP304 course > outline, and that includes coverage of yum repositories. > > That suggests to me that Red Hat will encourage the use of local yum > repositories, which IMO would make the RHN Proxy unnecessary. > > Will RHN Proxy continue with RHEL 5?
I'm confused. up2date is implemented via a yum plugin. The protocol to/from the RHN Proxy and to upstream RHN has not changed. To therefore get updates you either: 1) Go direct to RHN with yum (bad if you have a couple of thousand systems) 2) Go to an RHN proxy with Yum (good) 3) Use yum to make a local yum repository of all the updates (good) While I can see the advantage of creating a local yum repository over RHN Proxy, you have to download all packages for all architectures you are interested in... with an RHN Proxy it does that for you on demand. What I do think will become a little blurred is the reasons to buy RHN Satellite, which seems to have the major feature of offline use. If I wanted to run without a link to RedHat, pre-approve patches before they are available to users etc., then it would be worth my while setting up a local Yum mirror... so why would anyone ever buy Satellite? -- Sam _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
