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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263