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color:#1F497D'>Well, I’ve created a RHEL 4 channel on my spacewalk server and
rhnpush’ed the RPM’s into it, so that part is all set. I guess the next step
is to get the yum client working on the RHEL 4 client<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>John McNulty<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] RHEL 4 Clients?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Wojtak, Greg <<a
href="mailto:GregWojtak@quickenloans.com">GregWojtak@quickenloans.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Is there any documentation anywhere to setup RHEL 4 servers as spacewalk
clients to get their updates? How is this handled when yum was introduced
to RHEL in version 5?<o:p></o:p></p>
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I've not tried this personally but I think you can use yum from CentOS 4.
There are some instructions here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.eth0.us/yum-rhel">http://www.eth0.us/yum-rhel</a><br>
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I don't know if this will be able talk directly to RHN successfully, I suspect
not. So having thought about this before, what I imagine might work is
if you use mrepo to generate a system id for RHEL 4, register this with RHN (so
you'd need an extra spare paid for subscription) and then use mrepo with the
RHEL 4 system id to pull the rpms from RHN and create a local RHEL 4 yum repo
mirror. From there I think you should be able to rhn-push this repo into
a Spacewalk channel.<br>
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It's something I've thought about trying myself so we can centrally manage a
mix of RHEL 4 and 5 systems from Spacewalk here, but don't have time to do at
the moment. If you get it working I'd be interested to know.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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John<o:p></o:p></p>
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