impotent RHN tool?

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Gene C. wrote:

>The current rhn-applet does not handle redirections (known problem reported in 
>bugzilla).
>
>You can get around this until it is fixed by changing the definitions in 
>/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to the redirected URL.
>
>For example,  http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1 becomes 
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com:/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
>
>You can use lftp to check for the resolutions of the other URLs.
>


# vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
[...]
##yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
##yum updates-released 
http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
yum fedora-core-1 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
yum updates-released 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/

yum updates-testing 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/
#yum updates-testing http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1
[...]

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shrek-m