Re: Offline update

Bojan Mihevc wrote:
How to perform offline update of RHEL 5 for which I have license but
server is isolated and not able to go out on the web to RHN?

This has been raised as a bug on several occasions. You've got 3 easy options.

*) Set up an authorized proxy that can reach out to RedHat's download sites.
*) Use another host with external access as a RHEL mirror, using "reposync" to mirror the entire download repository channels. This is what I do, since I use "mock" from CentOS (and also supported under Fedora) to build RPM's in a managed environment.
*) Install CentOS, which has a far more reliable software downlod and repository mirroring capability and has fundamental software compatibility with RHEL.

The software channels and their associated DRM are one of the most irritating aspects of RHEL: even the recent "yum-rhn-plugin" in RHEL 5 is actually "up2date", wearing granny's nightgown, and ignores basic features of yum such as channel-specific configuration files to provide channel-specific "exclude" or "prefer" or "protect" options.

I was thinking about few scenarious:
a) wait for RHEL5 Ux and boot from new CD than do the upgrade and do
so on for every Uxy
b) get all rmps from new Uxy source then do the Uvh except kernel
(ivh)

Do *NOT* use "rpm -Uvh". Seriously, you'll bite yourself in the naughty bits by installing conflicting versions, especially with i386 and i686 or x86_64 packages.

c) put all rpm from Uxy CDs to local disk than do up2date or yum
redirected to local repository
d) register another server that can go out on the net to RHN, perform
upgrade on it than collect exactly the same packages and do the
upgrade on my isolated server
e)...

Can enyone help me about that scenario?

Tnx.

See above. The reposync tool (I beileve from yum-utils?) has just the features you need to create a local repository. If you like, I'll send you a copy of the "Makefile" I use to manage the repos, since reposync gets screwed by partially downloaded files and doesn't play well if you run two reposync's of the same repository at the same time, and it doesn't run download the repodata.
.

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