[tools] mrepo on RHEL 5

[Doug Peterson]

Thanks Dag, and Frederic  --

That worked like a charm.  In case someone doesn't have the RHEL4 up2date
/usr/share/rhn tree available, I've tarred it up, and you can download it
here:
http://www.muck.net/pub/rhn_share.tar

TTYL! :) Thanks again.

On 7/19/07, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Doug Peterson wrote:
>
> > I read this thread here:
> > http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/tools/2007-May/000826.html
> >
> > and it looks like someone found a workaround for getting mrepo working
> on
> > RHEL 5. But I'm not 100% clear that is the case. Can someone confirm
> this?
>
> Yes, the work-around is to dump the EL4 up2date code from /usr/share/rhn/
> on EL5 at /usr/share/mrepo/rhn/ (and use the subversion code which looks
> there first).
>
> I'm tempted to ship the EL4 up2date code with mrepo, but I'm afraid that
> that will just postpone implementing our own xmlrpc RHN api.
>
>
> > If that is indeed what happened, Could I get some more clarification on
> the
> > steps involved?  Dag mentioned he would put it up in the docs some
> where,
> > but I can't find it.
>
> Well, I'd like to release a new mrepo, but I prefer to have 2 documents
> shipped with it. One concerning setting up clients (yum, apt, smart) and a
> second one concerning the RHEL5 issue. On top of that I have someone
> investigating what is required for SLES/OpenSUSE and creating working
> templates.
>
>
> > I'm most confused with the first step:
> >
> > > - Extracted the /usr/share/rhn directory to another one like
> >
> > > /usr/share/rhn_old from an up2date rpm coming from RHEL4
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light? Thanks :)
>
> I think I just did ;-)
>
>
> > Thanks :)
>
> You're welcome.
>
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
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