6.1. Uploading Packages to RHN Proxy Server
RHN Package Manager allows an organization to serve custom packages associated with a private RHN channel through the RHN Proxy Server. If you want the RHN Proxy Server to serve only official Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages, you do not need to install RHN Package Manager.
To use the RHN Package Manager, install the rhns-proxy-package-manager RPM package and its dependencies. This package is available to registered RHN Proxy Server systems and is installed by running up2date rhns-proxy-package-manager.
Only the header information for the packages is uploaded to the RHN Servers. The headers are required so that RHN can resolve package dependencies for the client systems. The actual package files (*.rpm) are stored on the RHN Proxy Server. For this reason, custom packages cannot be downloaded through the RHN website, although they are listed. They must be retrieved by the client system using up2date.