CentOS - Nov 2008 - Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines? (RHN subscription expired)

Hello,

I hope my question is not annoying. I work as sysadmin
at a 400 users firm and we have around 20 CentOS 4/5
servers and VMs and CentOS is awesome, thank you!

However we have 4 important SAP-servers running RHEL5
and our RHN subscription has unforunately expired and
buying it again is not an option right now. Installing CentOS is
not an option too, because we'd have to pay for SAP-reinstall.

Has anybody have been in a similar situation and figured
out a good way to make "yum update" on RHEL machines
to work against CentOS repositories?

Regards
Alex

Alexander Farber wrote:
> Has anybody have been in a similar situation and figured
> out a good way to make "yum update" on RHEL machines
> to work against CentOS repositories?
>   
The CentOS repositories are just a YUM repository.  Simply add the 
'.repo' file to your '/etc/yum.repos.d/' folder.  You will also
need to
change the '$releasever' to just '5' as rhel uses
'server5'.  I just
tested this on a minimal install of RHEL 5.2.  Be warned that any 
updated versions of the RPMs will be overridden by the CentOS RPMs, 
which did include the kernel.  Yum is fairly flexible this way.  I am 
not sure how flexible the rhel update plugin will be if you eventually 
renew your subscription and try to go back, though.

Kenneth

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:02:06PM +0100, Alexander Farber
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
..
> However we have 4 important SAP-servers running RHEL5
...
> 
> Has anybody have been in a similar situation and figured
> out a good way to make "yum update" on RHEL machines
> to work against CentOS repositories?
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide

But all the caveats for your $$$ SAP license applies.

Tru
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