[rhn-users] Mirroring updates from RHN

["Dr. Günter Schmidt"]

Erik Kristensen wrote:

>
> Is there an easy way to mass download updates for RHEL
> with a valid entitlement? 

>
> 2. Using up2date, which has the drawback that
>    it's only possible to download for the version
>    of the os that up2date runs on.

That's the way I do it. One system with all available packages installed 
does automatically
'up2date'  remaining the binary packages. The up2date directory is 
available by NFS.
If a new system has to be installed, all rpm-files from the NFS 
directory are copied to
/var/spool/upadate and then up2date started, which now does only 
donwload the header files.


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