Can I install Yum and repos?

[Leonard Soetedjo]

On 06 January 2006 am 11:16, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:08:26AM +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote:
> > On 06 January 2006 am 08:53, Ed Wilts wrote:
> >  > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:19:24PM -0600, Hamilton, David wrote:
> > > > I had yum installed when I used FC4 and I would like to use it in
> > > > RHEL 4 if possible. Can someone provide how-to info or point me to a
> > > > link?
> > >
> > > You can install yum but you can't get RHEL 4 update binaries that way -
> > > Red Hat only makes the updates available via up2date.
> >
> > If you administer a few RHEL4, you can set up your own local yum / apt
> > server. The application I use is yam, its website is at
> > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
> >
> > I believe you can download Red Hat's update using rsync (or http/ftp)?
>
> You're wrong.  You can NOT download RHEL updates via rsync, httpd, or
> ftp.  Unless you've purchased the Red Hat's proxy or satellite services,
> the ONLY option you have is up2date (and even then, I don't know if the
> first download is via up2date or not - I don't have the proxy or
> satellite services).
>

Ok, I realize it's a mistake to say that RHEL updates can be downloaded via 
rsync/http/ftp.  But if you can download updates through up2date, then yam 
can use it, am I right?  Yam's website states that it can support up2date, 
but I'm not sure to what extend since I myself never try it before.

> > yam can be configured to download updates that way.  In fact I
> > download CentOS update in that manner.
>
> CentOS is a different distribution based on RHEL sources.  That's NOT a
> RHEL release.

Yes I understand it's different.  I'm just stating that that's what I did and  
RHEL might be similar.  I guess I didn't say it out clearly :P


Regards,

Leonard Soetedjo