On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:53 +0800, Bo Xie wrote: > I know RHEL 5 uses yum and rhnplugin to access RHEL 5 RHN. > > My question are: > (1) Can I use yum+rhnplugin to access RHEL 3/4 RHN? Is there any > difference between "RHEL 3/4 RHN repository" and "RHEL 5 repository"? > (2) Can I use yum+rhnplugin to access RHN's counterpart 'current' > (current.tigris.org)? > (3) I assume 'RHEL 5 RHN' is still a 'RHN repository', not a normal > 'yum repository' created by 'yum-arch' or 'createrepo'. I mean Red Hat > only changes the update *client* from up2date to yum, but does not > change the repository from RHN repository to yum repository.Am I > right? > You'd probably be better off asking on a rhel-specific list about this. However, afaict, the rhn_plugin is just a way of authenticating to rhn to access it as yum repository. It's simple and therefore very clever. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
