Redhat ES Patches

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> Ok, I've got an ES machine here at work.  I can't have it contacting
> Redhats up2date server.  I want the patches, but I can't easily just
> download all the latest updates, regardless of wether my system needs
> them or not, so I can have my own distribution point of sorts.
> 
> Anyone have an easier way to get past this, rather than individually
> download all 1100+ packages and sift through them finding the ones that
> are newer than the source media?  I mean.. having to individually select
> each of those 1100+ packages for download is going to suck.

I hate to break it to you, but the only free updates available for
ES, AS, PW or EL are source RPMs.  If you want binary updates, you must
sign up for an update "entitlement" and get them from Red Hat's site
via up2date.

This is one of the reasons so many people flocked to Fedora Core.

Sorry.
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