[rhn-users] Network Installations via RHN Proxy Servers

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, inode0 wrote:

> On 2/11/07, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
>
> > For this mrepo needs an understanding of anaconda's metadata and apply the
> > correct methodology, unionfs integration and the metadata re-generation
> > functionality.
> >
> > Usually mrepo development is driven by effort from users. The best way to
> > get new features in mrepo is looking into specifics, join discussions and
> > providing patches/information.
> >
> > PS Starting with RHEL5 this is really no longer necessary as RHEL5 allows
> > to use normal yum repositories. The fact that Yum is now moving to an
> > sqlite metadata format will probably mean that for FC7/RHEL6 will again
> > have a different methodology :)
> 
> Can you help me understand how this makes it possible? Presumably this
> means that I could now be doing up to date installs of FC5 and FC6
> rather than what I am doing (dropping the original ISOs into an
> installation tree and doing hundreds of package updates after the
> install completes).

For FC6 (and probably FC5) you can just point to the RPMS directory that 
has repomd metadata. So both should already work with a normal merged 
mrepo repository. (os+updates)

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]