RHN XMLRPC API

[Brian Long]

> Maybe you can clue me in on the next problem that I have: having identified
> the specific errata I wish to retrieve, how to I get up2date to download
> packages/errata from channels that do not match the specific system that I
> am running up2date from? Lets say my retrieval system is an RHEL 4 WS X86,
> but I need to download packages/errata for RHEL 3 AS X86_64. Using up2date
> --channel doesn't seem to work.

Check out this bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162210

I have submitted patches to up2date to do what you require.  Red Hat
does not plan to accept these patches although many folks have
downloaded my changes and successfully implemented them.

/Brian/

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