On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:20 PM, derleader mail wrote:
Red hat yum downloads packages from RHN Centos yum downloads packages from the fastest mirror?
There is difference in configuration.
Redhat uses yum rhnplugin to download packages from rhnet.
It's only difference. rhnplugin is closed source system that ties into rhn.redhat.com
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/yum-rh...
Is this the package?
Yes, and it has a stack of dependencies to manage RHEL authentication. Frankly, I always disable it except on a host that is downloading a local RHEL mirror with "reposync", and which is my local yum repository. That makes the components available to non-root users for review and downloading, one of the great flaws of that plugin.
Do you know where I can find extensive information how the mechanism of updates works. Is there development documentation which shows how the source code works? So far I haven't seen such papers. I'm not experienced developer so I can't trace the source code to see how it works.
And I'm going to change to change my web mail soon.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:30 PM, derleader mail derleader@abv.bg wrote:
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:20 PM, derleader mail wrote:
Red hat yum downloads packages from RHN Centos yum downloads packages from the fastest mirror?
There is difference in configuration.
Redhat uses yum rhnplugin to download packages from rhnet.
It's only difference. rhnplugin is closed source system that ties into rhn.redhat.com
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/yum-rh...
Is this the package?
Yes, and it has a stack of dependencies to manage RHEL authentication. Frankly, I always disable it except on a host that is downloading a local RHEL mirror with "reposync", and which is my local yum repository. That makes the components available to non-root users for review and downloading, one of the great flaws of that plugin.
Do you know where I can find extensive information how the mechanism of updates works. Is there development documentation which shows how the source code works? So far I haven't seen such papers. I'm not experienced developer so I can't trace the source code to see how it works.
The "yum-rhn-plugin" is "up2date" in sheep's clothing. Review the older, RHEL 4 documentation on "up2date" to understand how it works, and you can review the source code itself. I understand that it's based on the "spacewalk" toolkit: you can investigate and even buy support for RHN in-house, but it's Oracle based, and a significant configuration burden to run your own.
I don't bother. reposync and yum configurations, baby, with some manual kickstart integration. For environments of less than 1000 systems, that's plenty if you can do shell scripts or Makefiles intelligently.
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