Red Hat updates

[Esquivel, Vicente]

Thanks for the reply,

I am also looking at the academic subscription for my test environment,
I already subscribe and have support for my production systems.  This
should work I think.  Any suggestions??

Vince

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:22 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Red Hat updates
> 
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:05:56AM -0500, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
> > Can anyone share how they get updates for their test
> > enviroment(non-production) systems running RHEL ES or AS?
> 
> For starters, you need a subscription for your test environments too.
> If you plan on installing RHEL ES or AS on your test systems, they
> *must* be subscribed as long as your production systems have 
> subscriptions - that's in the Red Hat subscription agreement.
> 
> On the other hand, you could run a 3rd-party rebuild of RHEL 
> sources (CentOS, WBL, etc.) and get a "close-enough" test 
> environment.  The rebuilds aren't 100% - some stuff could 
> fail whereas they'll work with RHEL binaries - but it might 
> suit your purposes.
> 
> For my organization, we typically subscribe our test systems 
> too.  The only rebuild running here is in a virtual machine 
> on my desktop.
> 
>         .../Ed
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