On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:44 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I found this post via Google. > > I believe I understand what he's asking about... let me present > another scenario: > > We had to install RHEL for some EMC devices (long story). The > servers reside on backend RFC networks and have no outside > connectivity (they never will). They need a way to receive updates > in a manageable fashion. > > Personally, I prefer to use YUM... our other machines are CentOS > based, and yum works fine. To me, it seems easier to setup and > manage. > > Interestingly, "locate" finds this on RHEL4: > > /etc/log.d/scripts/services/yum > /etc/log.d/conf/services/yum.conf > /etc/log.d/conf/logfiles/yum.conf > /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.pyc > /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py > /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.py > /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumBaseRepo.pyc > > I wonder if there is a way to have YUM utilize the RHN, without having > to set up yet another repository. I'm not much of a programmer, but > these files make me think that it's possible. no. Those are to make it possible for up2date to use yum repos. > My overall goal is to create a mirror of CentOS' repository and > configure our servers to "yum" from that. I'd like to do similiarly > for RHEL, if feasible. There are some tools to download all the packages from rhn and make a repo out of them. But nothing that directly does that from yum (at this time) -sv
