Can I install Yum and repos?

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:08:26AM +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote:
> > On 06 January 2006 am 08:53, Ed Wilts wrote:
> >  > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:19:24PM -0600, Hamilton, David wrote:
> > > > I had yum installed when I used FC4 and I would like to use it in RHEL 4
> > > > if possible. Can someone provide how-to info or point me to a link?
> > >
> > > You can install yum but you can't get RHEL 4 update binaries that way -
> > > Red Hat only makes the updates available via up2date.
> > 
> > If you administer a few RHEL4, you can set up your own local yum / apt server.  
> > The application I use is yam, its website is at 
> > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
> > 
> > I believe you can download Red Hat's update using rsync (or http/ftp)?  
> 
> You're wrong.  You can NOT download RHEL updates via rsync, httpd, or
> ftp.  Unless you've purchased the Red Hat's proxy or satellite services,
> the ONLY option you have is up2date (and even then, I don't know if the
> first download is via up2date or not - I don't have the proxy or
> satellite services).

Actually, with Yam you can download updates from RHN just as you can do 
with up2date. It has some functionality to download for different 
distributions/architectures and provide those centrally inside a company's 
network.

Unfortunately, this functionality is only checked into subversion, but 
will soon be available in Yam 0.8.0.

For more information about what you can do, check out:

	http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/yam/README.rhn

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