I think this has been done, they called it CentOS. But seriously, why implement the RHN, it is an annoying beast designed to get you to pay them money.
The whole design of it is to coerce you into paying them money for security updates. They can't charge you for the SRPM's, and if they made the compiled rpm's available they would have trouble restricting access to them since they are GPL. Therefore they fill the binary rpms with copyrighted strings, which is their excuse for going after people for distributing those, and they restrict access to the security patches so that if you don't pay a subscription fee you are running an insecure OS. In order to download a security patch without buying into this scheme, even if you own a valid redhat subscription plan, you have to navigate a PITA website to get assigned a single-use URL, and you have to do this for each rpm which needs patching, ONE AT A TIME. Oh, and you can figure out which rpm's need patching manually too. The only option becomes devising some counter-scheme to get the rpm's in an automated way. Maybe there is a more efficient way, but I cannot connect my servers to the internet, and RedHat's tech support basically told me there wasn't a better way. The alternative is to just run CentOS, which is identical to Redhat anyway and just update with Yum, and you can mirror the entire ftp with rsync if you feel like it, burn the update rpms to cd, etcetcetc. Anyway, if you want RedHat just run CentOS, since due to all this up2date nonsense Cent is actually significantly better than RedHat. /Rant off --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
