On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:07 -0600, inode0 wrote:
> On 12/19/06, MJang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
> 
> Will Red Hat feed updates to your local yum repository? Or their
> packages at all? I guess I don't see why using local yum repos, which
> one can do now anyway, would make a proxy server less valuable?!

An RHN Proxy doesn't get fed. It's basically a squid cache that fetches
from RHN when a package is first requested, then serves from the cache
from then on.

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