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Kan-I Jyo wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> In a recent post in the KB, it seems that now RHN supports
> Location-Aware Updates functionality if hosted clients go to RHEL 4.8
> and RHEL 5.4 (or later).
> 
>   - Changes in Red Hat Network (RHN) that affect yum and up2date
> downloads in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and 5.4
>     http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-16881
> 
> For RHEL 5.4 is shipped with yum-3.2.22-20.el5, I assumed that there
> were some changes made between this version and yum-3.2.19-18.el5
> (RHEL 5.3)
> while "rpm -q --changelog yum" does not tell much.
> 
> Is there anyone who is familiar with this subject any information
> about how this is implemented or some more details?
> Any comment would be greatly appreciated.
> 

The vast majority of the changes were done server-side on RHN Hosted.
There was only a set of minor changes required on the client-side to
support the URL redirection that CDN providers use.  You can
specifically look at the rhnlib package for more information.

# rpm -q --changelog rhnlib | head -3
* Fri May 08 2009 Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi AT redhat DOT com> 2.2.7-2
Resolves: #489920 #484245 #489921 #492638 #499858 #499860

Thanks.
Brandon
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