Hi Ryan,
Ryan Madison wrote:
We are trying to implement a sound patch management solution at work
for our linux boxes running RHEL. My preference is yum, but it does
not appear to ship with rhel. It does with FC which I'm running at
home. I've found a "repository" site:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/, which has a version of yum, but
it seems that if I install yum, I won't be able to point it at RedHat
for updates, but rather to this repository.
I'm not clear if these places are "middlemen" for RedHat, meaning that
they have the same packages available as RHEL, or if I point to them
for updates, I will be putting all sorts of non-vendor supported
packages on our boxes.
What I'd like to have happen is to install yum, and on one box point
it at RedHat for updates. Then setup a repository inside our intranet
and point other boxes at it for updates. Is that possible using yum?
It certainly should be possible. I use CentOS 4.x which is a clone of
RHEL4, and it uses Yum as the default updater, so if you grab the yum
package from CentOS 4, it will likely work with RHEL 4.
As far as pointing at multiple repos, I would think you can add the
RHEL4 repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/ as well as the Dag repo. I currently
have the CentOS repo and the dag repo named there and it works fine.
The only issue you may run into is if the RHEL repo may require key
based auth to validate your license, etc, so I don't know if yum would
handle that.
John
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