On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:06 -0500, Joanna Green wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 22:06 -0500, Jack Neely wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > > > So, apperently, that big, long traceback was urllib2's way of telling me > > > that it doesn't like non-string headers. > > > > > > Attached is an actual working rhn.py. It can query and fetch files from > > > either Current (which I found some neat protocall brokenness in) and > > > RHN/RHN Proxies. > > > > > > > cool. Now to get it working so we can use it from yum. > > > > -sv > > > > Did you guys get this to work? The reason I am asking.... > > We maintain a local yum repository. Yum has been working great. > Starting to get RH Enterprise boxes now. Updates for these boxes take > hours and hours. Its ridiculous. Sometimes the update process just > hangs. Not sure if it is a firewall issue on our end or their end. > Would like to update these boxes with yum. Have no interest in > circumventing licenses as we would have the IG breathing down our > necks. Am able to use up2date via RHN and store rpms to a directory > which could be used for a yum repository. Problem is, we can only > download updates for the box we have the license on. Would like to > download updates for all architectures (x86_64, i386). So how can we > do that without having a bunch of boxes around just for the updates. > There must be a nifty neato way to do this. Was wondering if the > above rhn.py would help out..... > check this out. https://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-December/msg00257.html -sv
