On 06 January 2006 am 11:16, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:08:26AM +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote: > > On 06 January 2006 am 08:53, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:19:24PM -0600, Hamilton, David wrote: > > > > I had yum installed when I used FC4 and I would like to use it in > > > > RHEL 4 if possible. Can someone provide how-to info or point me to a > > > > link? > > > > > > You can install yum but you can't get RHEL 4 update binaries that way - > > > Red Hat only makes the updates available via up2date. > > > > If you administer a few RHEL4, you can set up your own local yum / apt > > server. The application I use is yam, its website is at > > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/ > > > > I believe you can download Red Hat's update using rsync (or http/ftp)? > > You're wrong. You can NOT download RHEL updates via rsync, httpd, or > ftp. Unless you've purchased the Red Hat's proxy or satellite services, > the ONLY option you have is up2date (and even then, I don't know if the > first download is via up2date or not - I don't have the proxy or > satellite services). > Ok, I realize it's a mistake to say that RHEL updates can be downloaded via rsync/http/ftp. But if you can download updates through up2date, then yam can use it, am I right? Yam's website states that it can support up2date, but I'm not sure to what extend since I myself never try it before. > > yam can be configured to download updates that way. In fact I > > download CentOS update in that manner. > > CentOS is a different distribution based on RHEL sources. That's NOT a > RHEL release. Yes I understand it's different. I'm just stating that that's what I did and RHEL might be similar. I guess I didn't say it out clearly :P Regards, Leonard Soetedjo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
