Mrepo: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/
Don't forget that, if you're using Red Hat's updates, you still need to have a license for each system that you're updating. Trevor On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 21:07, Sam Abed <sama...@gmail.com> wrote: > how do you then download *all* the packages installed on the 400 or so > servers from redhat, to seed your local repo ? > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I would argue that a one time effort to get proper repo locally, would be >> much more efficient than using a tool like RHN Satellite. >> this way you control the content of your repository. >> additionally, I would really recommend against having multiple tools >> managing your systems. >> >> my 2c >> Ohad >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, PeterBurkholder <pburkhol...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> This is slightly off topic, and may just be tossing red meat to y'all, >>> but here goes: >>> >>> My boss has RedHat coming in on Tuesday to give a spiel on RHN >>> Satellite. I'm dubious, as it seems mostly like a web UI wrapped >>> around a Yum repository system and a half-baked configuration >>> management system. I'm of the opinion that our time and money would >>> be better spent getting off of RHN for package distribution, setting >>> up our own Yum repositories, getting a good start on Puppet, and >>> bringing in Luke Kanies for a week to bring the Puppet installation to >>> up to snuff. FWIW, we'll be looking about 50 systems that need to be >>> managed, and we may not have to pay for server itself ($13.5K) just >>> for the system subscriptions ($200 each). >>> >>> Does anyone here have recent experience with RHN Satellite, and care >>> to comment on its usefulness and functionality? Or on its >>> shortcoming and pitfalls? My Google searches aren't turning up any >>> useful reviews. I'd like to be in a position to ask some semi- >>> informed questions. >>> >>> ALSO: it would be great if there's anyone in the Washington DC area >>> that could come in to give a pitch for Puppet. I did some work with >>> Puppet at my last job (up until three months ago), and I've been a >>> proponent of it my current gig, but my experience isn't really deep >>> enough to make the case. >>> >>> Thanks for any opinions you can provide. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Peter >>> -- >>> Peter Burkholder >>> pburkhol...@pobox.com >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
