RHEL yum RHN

[mnikhil m]

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:
> mnikhil m wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >Has any one implemented a local yum repository or redcarpet kind for RHEL v3?
> >
> >can someone please redirect me to the steps that you have taken.
> >though I have up2date rhn with RHEL,My core wish is to maintain a
> >local repository server making the clients connect a local server for
> >patches and updates instead of connecting to rhn everytime an up2date
> >is run.
> >Or is having a local repository possible with up2date program ( I have
> >heard that in most cases up2date has support for yum repositories)
> >
> >Any Suggestions/Comments?
> >Thanks,
> >Nikhil
> >
> >
> >
> To build a local yum repository, try these:
> http://www.charlescurley.com/yum/repository.html
> http://fedoranews.org/alex/tutorial/yum/
> 
> up2date uses yum or apt depending on how you specify the repository in
>   /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> 
> for example you can add a line like:
>   yum rpms-stable http://www.repository.com/fedora/3/en/$ARCH/rpms-stable/
> to have up2date access rpms at http://www.repository.com/ using yum
> 
> or
>   apt rpms-stable
> http://www.repository.com/fedora/3/en/$ARCH/rpms-stable/ repository-name
> to have up2date access rpms at the same location using apt.
> 
> 
> 
> Carl.
> 
> 
> 
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