The FAQ asks:
> Can I use Spacewalk to sync my entitlements for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and other Red Hat software products?
And says 'no'. Whyever not? It's straightforward to set up an internal
repository mirror with 'reposync', sync it daily, and configure tools
like yum (without yum-rhn-plugin) and kickstart and mock to point to
that repository instead of using the up2date in granny's nightgown that
is the yum-rhn-plugin utility. This allows you to use the full yum
configuration to exclude individual components from the RHN
repositories, and enormously speeds update performance in the UK where I
am right now. This is particularly true with large deloyments, where a
corporate externel network connection may be sucked dry by a server room
doing an update from RHEL 5.0 to RHEL 5.2 and sucking down hundreds of
updates per machine.
Is it really forced to use an off-site repository such as the
yum-rhn-plugin managed one? Or, if it can do CentOS, why not RHEL off of
a local repository?
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