RHN Down for Maintenance - till when? - mirror site for packages?

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Herta Van den Eynde wrote:

> We're in the middle of our annual maintenance.  This morning, we were greated
> by a "Down for Maintenance" message on RHN, which claims that the "servers
> will be back online by no later than 11:00PM EDT (UTC-4) on Tuesday, June 6th,
> 2006."
> 
> Apart from the fact that it would have been nice if RHN had informed us ahead
> of time, does anyone know how long the maintenance will last?
> 
> Is there another location where we could pick up the cluster suite packages
> for RHEL AS4?

Hi Herta,

You might be interested in Yam. This allows you to mirror channels from 
RHN so that you have the packages available locally.

	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

Kind regards,
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