Depends. If you're looking to replace RHN with something 'else' out there because you're not licensed, then you're pretty much on your own. There's an 'enterprising soul' out there who's got a repository for RHEL which is built from the source rpm's, but a) it'll cost you some small amount of dollars/month, and b) If you're running a production machine I'd be rather dubious about downloading RHEL patches from anyone other than RH. (apologies to the enterprising soul). If you're looking to patch a large number of machines and don't want A) to saturate your bandwidth B) some of your machines to be connected to the internet at all C) to adminster your machines from RHN's interface D) <insert other thing> You can create a repository of your own. BUT... you need to download the binaries from RHN. Essentially you have to create your own repository by downloading all the binaries from one of your licensed servers, then distribute them out to your other servers via yum. You can do this with a bit of judicial scripting around a command similar to the following : up2date --nox --showall --channel \"rhel-i386-es-3 \" Slap all the rpm's into a directory run yum-arch / createrepo on it, then have all your other machines point to your repository. Bob's yer uncle. S. -----Original Message----- From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter M. Abraham Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:50 PM To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Yum] Yum and RedHat Enterprise Greetings: I apologize if this has been covered before; but can you use Yum to keep RedHat Enterprise up to date rather than RHN? If so, what repositories should one use? Thank you. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
