On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:38 PM, NiftyClusters Mitch niftycluster@niftyegg.com wrote:
Exactly, RedHat service (not free) uses the redhat update network and tools like "up2date" to deliver updated RPM packages to their customer. They do not distribute yum by default and they do not have a yum repository configuration that works.
FYI this is no longer true with respect to RHEL5. It does indeed use yum, but they have some specialized hooks into yum to deliver content via rhn still. This is what OP was referring to I believe.