>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-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-5.el6.src.rpm >> >> 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110110/68d061d3/attachment-0004.html>