Setting up local YUM repo

jaredk51 · 02-19-2010, 02:22 PM

I am unable to find a rhel4 mirror I can rsync my local YUM server to.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a reliable mirror that I can rsync to on a regular basis for rhel4 RPMs?

Are there fedora or Centos mirrors that will suffice for Rhel4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)

or rhel5.3

Thanks in advance.

MensaWater · 02-19-2010, 03:49 PM

Nope.

RHEL wants you to buy Satellite server so they make it hard for you to do this without using that.

The CentOS packages are binary compiles of RHEL sources but if you start using them I'm not sure what effect that would have.

You can look into Spacewalk which is the open source equivalent of Satellite. My co-worker suggested he's read that some people have worked out how to use this for RHEL.

P.S. RHEL4 was still using up2date - RHEL5 uses yum but both are configured to communicate with RHN.