Re: Red Hat updates

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:41:24AM -0500, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
Thanks for the reply,

I am also looking at the academic subscription for my test environment,
I already subscribe and have support for my production systems. This
should work I think. Any suggestions??

If you can get the academic subscription, then I believe you'll be
covered. Until you do, you do not have the legal right to copy the RHEL
binaries from your production servers to your test servers unless you
also subscribe those test servers.

No, I'm not a lawyer!

.../Ed

Vince

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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Red Hat updates

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:05:56AM -0500, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
Can anyone share how they get updates for their test
enviroment(non-production) systems running RHEL ES or AS?

For starters, you need a subscription for your test environments too.
If you plan on installing RHEL ES or AS on your test systems, they
*must* be subscribed as long as your production systems have
subscriptions - that's in the Red Hat subscription agreement.

On the other hand, you could run a 3rd-party rebuild of RHEL
sources (CentOS, WBL, etc.) and get a "close-enough" test
environment. The rebuilds aren't 100% - some stuff could
fail whereas they'll work with RHEL binaries - but it might
suit your purposes.

For my organization, we typically subscribe our test systems
too. The only rebuild running here is in a virtual machine
on my desktop.

.../Ed

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