> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sharpe, Sam J > Sent: 30 January 2009 13:33 > To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] RE: satellite/spacewalk server
> No. CentOS uses proper Yum repositories. In the old days, CentOS 4 > replaced up2date with Yum. Now RHEL5 also uses Yum for package > management. > > RHN Proxy actually speaks roughly the same protocol for RHEL3/4/5, but > on RHEL5, rather than using the up2date client, yum has something > called > rhn-plugin which translates the RHN api to something Yum understands. > What you'll notice is that on RHEL5, /etc/yum.repos.d/ is pretty much > empty - and definitely doesn't contain information about the RHN > Channels you are subscribed to. On CentOS /etc/yum.repos.d/ will list > the repositories for your updates. > > To do what you want, you have a couple of options: > > 1) Configure your own Yum repository(s) and populate it with RHEL > updates (google for this, there are people who have done it before). > http://dag.wieers.com/ has some good tools for creating and updating > Yum > repos - I think Dag also provides a method to download updates from > RHN. > You then need to retrofit Yum to your rhel4 and rhel3 hosts... > > 2) Buy RHN Proxy - this will definitely work and is supported by Red > Hat. > > We use both - we have an RHN proxy for updates, but we also have some > Yum repositories (to make installations faster and reduce reliance on > RHN for installs) - for you RHN Proxy sounds a good fit. Hi Sam thanks for the info. I've haven't done any satellite/proxy stuff before so this info is good to know. I've already considered simply creating a Repository but I'd like to see if RHN Proxy would be any better for it. Cheers Nick. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
