RE: will apt-rpm be officially included in RH in the future relea

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

>> As at work we now have 10 RH servers all using rhn (yes we 
>> pay for it as
>> well), 
>> so it's a waste of bandwidth downloading the same updates for 
>> them all.
>> (yup, I know I could run up2date, get a list of outdated files and
>> manually install them from a local repository), but that defeats the
>> Idea of up2date.
> 
> You can save the bandwidth if you use a squid proxy server running as a
> transparent proxy between your servers and the internet.  The packages
> are received using http.
> 
> 		-Dan

OK so you could also just do a IP:port redirect on the firewall
to a local web server?
Or do you get other problems then?

-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!