[tools] of mrepo, RHN, and managing Entitlements....

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:08:45AM -0600, Caerie Houchins wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2008 10:01 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote:
> > > Would like to know what people do in this case as well :)
> 
> My understanding has always been that as long as you don't depend on
> RedHat for support, you don't need to register a system on RHN.  We
> never bother with RHN and simply have one license per type of system
> we have, use mrepo to sync the channels down locally, then feed all
> the systems off of that.
> 
> Did we misunderstand how that works?

I brought up this sort of topic on redhat-list recently.  At the very
least the discussion might interest you:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2007-December/msg00185.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2007-December/msg00200.html

  or

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2007-December/thread.html
  and just search for "Revisiting"

(The thread kinda got broken up)

At the very least any system you are using RH's binary RPM's for
updates on you should probably have an entitlement for.

It's somewhat murky as to whether or not you need to pay for systems
that are in use, but are not using RH supplied updates or RH provided
support.

In the end, I doubt RH will care too much either way as long as you're
not overly abusing the system of trust.

Ray