I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers. We are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to manually download the RPMs? We would prefer to deploy upgrades using apt instead of up2date, for consistency, but we need to know whether we can even do that on RHEL. Thanks! Steve Meyers
This is probably better off sent to Redhat sales than the centos mailing list...>From a quick glance, you need a special RHN subscription:http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/table/ Either Proxy or Satelite. On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:42:52 -0700, Steve Meyers <steve-centos at spamwiz.com> wrote:> I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers. We > are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We > currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a > question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to > answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to > manually download the RPMs? We would prefer to deploy upgrades using > apt instead of up2date, for consistency, but we need to know whether we > can even do that on RHEL. > > Thanks! > > Steve Meyers > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Beau Henderson http://www.iminteractive.net
Steve,
'up2date' has a download only option (-d/--download); you could use that
after some fashion (might take a little hacking) to routinely snag all
upgrades post-ISO, and build your own apt repository. Take a look at
repo-janitor (over on the FreshRPMS list), maybe it'll give you some ideas.
Start with something like:
/usr/sbin/up2date --nox --showall > /tmp/allrpms.txt
sed [magic sed switches to remove version] < /tmp/allrpms.txt >
/tmp/all.txt
for $line in /tmp/all.txt; do
/usr/sbin/up2date --nox -d --tmpdir=/path/to/apt/repo --get $line
done
/commands/to/make/apt/repo
(complete psuedo code, not a bit of it tested :) )
-te
Steve Meyers wrote:> I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers.
We
> are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We
> currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a
> question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to
> answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to
> manually download the RPMs? We would prefer to deploy upgrades using
> apt instead of up2date, for consistency, but we need to know whether we
> can even do that on RHEL.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve Meyers
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Hi Steve,> If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to manually download > the RPMs?Yes, if you have registered one (or more) of the subscriptions towards an RHN account, you can download them by logging in to https://rhn.redhat.com Alternatively you can build a script that does that for you. I used to work at a company that used this and maintained their own internal apt server.> We would prefer to deploy upgrades using apt instead of up2date, for > consistency, but we need to know whether we can even do that on RHEL.No problem whatsoever. With regards, Taco Scargo
The answer is yes you do. You'd have to login to https://rhn.redhat.com and go to the proper channel, but under the errata, you can find download links to the RPM's. Mike -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces at caosity.org] On Behalf Of Steve Meyers Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 4:43 PM To: centos at caosity.org Subject: [Centos] RHEL question I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers. We are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to manually download the RPMs? We would prefer to deploy upgrades using apt instead of up2date, for consistency, but we need to know whether we can even do that on RHEL. Thanks! Steve Meyers _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos