[CentOS] Yum question - RHEL4

[Matt Hyclak]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:43:53AM -0800, John R Pierce enlightened us:
> Tom Brown wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >this is technically a RHEL4 question but i hope it can be answered 
> >here...
> >
> >Does RHEL4 do yum OK ? I kix a lot of boxes and it would be great to 
> >run the update after the build automajically rather than running 
> >through the up2date registration and using that method. I would also 
> >rather not pay lots for satellite server.
> >
> >If i setup my own RHEL repo can i use yum against this? Or any other 
> >thoughts/options ?
> 
> RHEL4 doesn't come with Yum.  the RHEL4 Red Hat Network repositories are 
> not accessible by Yum as they require registration.    
> 
> I'm not sure how you can setup your 'own RHEL repo' as the RHN ones are 
> secure.
> 
> You can install  Yum on RHEL, and point it at a Yum CentOS repository, 
> you'll effectively convert it to CentOS in the process.

The YumOnRHEL wiki entry explains how to do all of the above.

Matt

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