[CentOS-devel] Inclusion of rhnlib

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:08 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to request the inclusion of the upstream rhnlib package into 
> CentOS. Even though RHN in itself does not work if you have no 
> entitlement, mrepo uses rhnlib python modules to archive updates from RHN 
> for RHEL.
> 
> Without rhnlib, CentOS cannot be used to set up an internal RHN mirror for 
> RHEL packages using mrepo. And I know of people that do (and need to 
> manually copy an rhnlib package from RHEL).
> 

you can just use reposync with centos5 and the yum-rhn-plugin to do the
same things that rhnget in mrepo does.

-sv