Acceptable to create a local rpm mirror?
Andrew Bacchi
bacchi at rpi.edu
Fri Feb 23 16:16:53 UTC 2007
Chris,
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We've purchased a proxy license from Redhat to do updates. It's much
less $$ than the satellite license, and does what we need. Though we
are still considering purchase of a satellite license for additional
flexibility. HTH.
Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> In order to more closely control software versioning, updates,
> testing, etc., we'd like to create a local mirror of the RHN RPM
> database. I know that Redhat really _prefers_ to sell you their
> $bignum satellite server to do this, but is it against my licensing
> agreement to snag all of the RPMs from RHN and then redistribute them
> locally to other RHEL machines with valid licenses? (I'm not trying
> to circumvent the provisioning here; we'd still buy update licenses
> for the machines getting updates.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris St. Pierre
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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