[CentOS-devel] On rhn tools and subscription manager

Thu Jun 19 14:32:54 UTC 2014
Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com>

On 06/19/2014 10:26 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Hi Bryan
>
> On 06/19/2014 03:23 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Ideally, I would ilke to see subscription-manager and python-rhsm
>> carried in CentOS. There is no need to make it part of @base as it is
>> upstream, but it would be nice to have them there.
>
> We are going to try and patch it so we lose the GUI Nag and we disable
> the auto-run for the yum-plugin, that way we can leave it in the same
> roles / install types and in the base distro for people who want to use
> it. And it wont complain about 'This machine is not subscribed to RHN'.
>
> Would that work ?
>
> Jim is going to take a stab at patching stuff, I had a brief look and
> passed along notes to him. Would be good if someone familiar with the
> codebase upstream could glace over and ack the patch.. once we have it.
>
> - KB
>
Sounds great.. thank you.

-- bk