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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, David Coulson wrote:
> bergman@merctech.com wrote:
>> For OS and distribution patches, have you considered the RH Satellite or
>> RHN Proxy server products...they are designed to do just what you want.
> They cost money, Squid is free. I have repeatedly failed to make a
> business case for deploying RH Satellite Server. Even with 100+ boxes, I
> can't justify the $300/box cost.
If you want free Satellite server try Spacewalk.
http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/. I have never tried it but Spacewalk is
Red Hat's free version of Satellite server.
>From the web page:
"Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution.
It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite
product is derived."
In addition there is a program called mrepo
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/mrepo/
Again I have never used it but it is supposed to allow you to download all of
the packages from RHN into a local repo.
Mrepo is most likely easier to setup and maintain. Last I heard spacewalk
still needed Oracle but they were working on converting it to run on MySql.
That was 6 months or so ago so things might have changed.
Regards,
--
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
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