[WBEL-users] Another Up2date question

Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:16:37 -0600

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William Hooper wrote:<br>
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  <pre wrap="">Ewan Mac Mahon said:
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    <pre wrap="">On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Philip R. Schaffner wrote:

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      <pre wrap="">On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:32, William Hooper wrote:
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        <pre wrap="">Will Senn said:
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          <pre wrap=""> Thanks, ok - NO RHEL updates! Yum, hmm - I figure that this must be
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      <pre wrap="">what
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          <pre wrap="">/etc/yum.conf is for and that I can add the <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///updates">file:///updates</a>
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      <pre wrap="">directory as
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          <pre wrap="">an entry and away we go, great!
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      <pre wrap="">If you have multiple machines to update, HTML is an easy way to go:

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    <pre wrap="">A local server is a good idea in principle, but in practice I would (and
indeed do) use an ftp server.
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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.

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William,<br>
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On that note, the rhn-applet wants me to register - that doesn't really
make sense if I'm not able to update from the rhn site (due to
licensing restrictions), does it?<br>
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Will<br>
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