Acceptable to create a local rpm mirror?

[Stuart Sears]

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Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> In order to more closely control software versioning, updates,
> testing, etc., we'd like to create a local mirror of the RHN RPM
> database.  I know that Redhat really _prefers_ to sell you their
> $bignum satellite server to do this, but is it against my licensing
> agreement to snag all of the RPMs from RHN and then redistribute them
> locally to other RHEL machines with valid licenses?  (I'm not trying
> to circumvent the provisioning here; we'd still buy update licenses
> for the machines getting updates.)

As far as I know you are perfectly entitled to do this.
As I understand the licensing, as long as the only machines that you are
putting the RH updates on are machines with valid RHN subscriptions then
the method you choose for pushing updates to them is your concern.

You could always ask RH customer service directly. They won't lie to you.

disclaimer (just in case): I work for RH, but I do not speak for them.
Any and all of the above is my personal interpretation/understanding.

Regards

Stuart
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