[WBEL-users] Another Up2date question

[William Hooper]

Ewan Mac Mahon said:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Philip R. Schaffner wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:32, William Hooper wrote:
>> > Will Senn said:
>> > >
>> > >  Thanks, ok - NO RHEL updates! Yum, hmm - I figure that this must be
>> what
>> > > /etc/yum.conf is for and that I can add the file:///updates
>> directory as
>> > > an entry and away we go, great!
>>
>> If you have multiple machines to update, HTML is an easy way to go:
>>
> A local server is a good idea in principle, but in practice I would (and
> indeed do) use an ftp server.

The only thing to note is that the rhn-applet shipped with WBEL doesn't
support FTP repos.  Not a big issue and can be resolved by either not
using rhn-applet, or upgrading to one of the later ones.

-- 
William Hooper