Hi All,

I'm having a terrible time trying to find instructions on how to setup yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 6) -

I can't find a mirror for one, nor any yum configurations indicating what repositories to use for this distro.

I want to set up a local yum repo/mirror with a lot of different Linux distributions on it, but this one in particular I can't seem to get right.

Can someone point me in the right direction here?

Thanks

Jon

RHEL 4.x uses up2date rather than yum. Essentially you have to have a subscription with RedHat to do updates using up2date.

Thanks J.

If I do register and so forth, is there a way that I can keep a local mirror on my network? eg: cronjob every night to download any new packages - then configure the up2date on all the other servers to refer back to my system?

And what are licenses looking like currently? Can I get 1 up2date license and then set up a up2date mirror here for the rest of my servers? Sorry for this question in advance.

Thanks Again

Jon

RedHat offers some sort of satellite option but we don't use it. By the way they went to yum on RHEL5.

What you CAN do is set your up2date options such that you save the packages you download on the first server. It saves both the hdr and the rpm when you do that so you can then use that as one of your up2date sources. I looked at that once but never set it up. It seems they had information on how to do it on RedHat's site.

Of course you could just copy the RPMs across and use the rpm command to install them. (You'd still have to have up2date on the first host save the packages.)