On Apr 2, 2005 7:35 PM, Paul <subsolar at subsolar.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 21:41 +0100, Lee W wrote: > > Chris Weisiger wrote: > > > > Funny this topic came up now. I recently been demoing Red Hat Desktop > > and RHN. > > > > After a bit of playing around with RHN and looking at the code the the > > rhn_check client I've found it to be a bit of a mess (IMHO). There are > > many lines of TODO and I have even (just today) filed a bug as the more > > recent clients don't even seem to work with the "Remove Package" feature > > of RHN. > > > > I cannot really see any great encouragement from buying a RHN > > subscription if this is the way the client/server has been coded. If > > both sides of the configuration we completely open-source I wouldn't > > have a problem with it as I know the changes / bug fixes even one files > > would be available to all, but as long as Redhat keeps control of RHN I > > don't think I will be paying for the subscription. > > > > Back to the point has anyone found / thought of implementing a kind of > > Enterprise level YUM with the same sort of manageability of RHN. I > > looked at it myself but felt it would involve too much of a rewrite to > > the YUM clients to do. > > > > Does YUM even support any kind of authentication HTTP or FTP? > > > > I believe a companion Management Server type solution would be a great > > sister project to go along with Centos. At least that's my opinion > > Lee, > There is a project that was started back in the RH 7.3 days to reproduce > an open source version of the server side of the RHN. This project made > it to the point where it would allow clients to register and pull > updates from it and that is pretty much where it stuck. A new > maintainer has taken over the project and there is plans to implement > client status tracking, and client management. > > You can check it out at http://current.tigris.org/ and help out if you > want. > > I used to use it to maintain a hand full of servers and a couple > desktops until RH dropped support for their Retail versions. > Having never used RHN...what is the functionality you are looking for from a server based implementation of RHN? It sounds like quite a bit of work and I think that cron and some shell scripting could get a similar task done. Something like: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-March/006188.html What would this "RHN-like" functionality get you beyond the nag emails from that cron script? I tried reading about the functions of "current" but couldn't find them on the website. Greg