Acceptable to create a local rpm mirror?

[Bill Tangren]

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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You could make a yum repository of one of your boxes, and then use apache, NFS 
or ftp to serve the files to your other servers. It would be up to you, I guess, 
to make sure everyone using that repository has a license.