The client packages are going to become available to all server customers as soon as the RHN profiles get updated. That takes some time as it is a major repull of data. For python-imaging my proposal is to move it to the core server. Did you open a ticket about this package with RH support? Regards, Daniel On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 10:15 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On 7/17/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com> wrote: > > That said, somebody really needs to verify what I was told earlier, > > which is customers of EL5Server can use RHN and subscribe to the Client > > channels and get the content. Perhaps not vice-versa, but in this case > > it should be enough. Before we go down the road of doom, lets verify > > whether or not 5Server customers can get access to python-imaging > > through RHN. > > I don't think this is true. I have RHEL-5Server (academic) > entitlement, and I don't see "Client" listed anywhere in my list of > available software channels. I only see: > > # RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) > # RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) > # RHEL Hardware Certification (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) > # RHEL FasTrack (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) > # Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL Server (v.5 32-bit x86) > > And "python-imaging" is definitely not available to me: > > root bakserv:[~]# yum list python-imaging > Loading "rhnplugin" plugin > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up repositories > rhel-i386-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Finished > > The situation may be different for those who paid full enterprise > price for RHEL entitlements, but that doesn't change the fact that > unless EPEL provides "client" packages, I'll be left with broken > repositories. I will note, that it makes that much harder for me to > justify paying money to RH if I can have a better service using > Centos+EPEL. > > Regards, -- Daniel Riek, Product Manager Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc. E-Mail: riek redhat com, http://www.redhat.com/ Key-FP: 3DD7 C376 C3E0 1917 9A63 6343 5A26 2C59 6C07 6F32
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