On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 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)
For completeness sake, let me add here that mrepo (formerly known as Yam) allows you to mirror from RHN (and other repositories) and create a local repository. The power of mrepo is not that fact it can do that (a little bash knowledge brings you that far) but that it eases managing repositories, defines a common structure and is really easy to set up. It even helps with registering to RHN and subscribing to channels automatically. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
