RHEL yum RHN

[Alfred Hovdestad]

What I used to do in my 7.3 days was to install *everything* on one 
server and configure it to keep the RPMs.  I would run up2date on it, 
download all of the new RPMs, and NFS export the rpm directory to my 
other Red Hat 7.3 boxes.  Then I would run rpm -Fvh *.rpm on the rest of 
the desktops.  After installing the new RPMs, I would then run up2date 
-p on each box to re-sync with RHN.

That worked most if the time, except when a new packages was released 
which changed the dependency requirements.  Then I had to up2date each 
box one at a time.

   Alfred Hovdestad



mnikhil m wrote:
> Hi Carl
> 
> Thanks for the reply :)
> 
> Yes..I know how to setup yum.. and infact I use apt-get for my most
> rpm needs on my small Fedora box...but what I would like to know is
> has anyone done that with Enterprise Linux setup because upon
> purchasing ELs from RedHat,RedHat gives you an entitlement to receive
> the updates from it RHN repository, I was thinking of setting up a
> local repository because, we have many in number of RHEL boxes... and
> to update them..we run up2date on all the boxes...and everytime they
> connect to the internet/redhat network...which I want to avoid(may be
> my bandwidth problem here).I just want to save some time (and money as
> well...) so that whenever there is any need of new package or patch, I
> would consider to fetch it from my local repository server instead of
> going all the way to redhat network,
> 
> of the way..I have heard that we can use username/password
> authentication..can that be seen here in yum (RHEL) to get the updates
> from RHN..
> 
> may be someone from Redhat should answer it.. ?
> 
> On 8/12/05, Carl Reynolds <redhat-list at hyperbole-software.com> wrote:
>