Re: Using centos updates for RHEL (project spacewalk)

SF wrote:
On Nov 20, 2:35 am, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bruce Coryell wrote:
SF wrote:
Hello Group,
I've been looking for information about the compatibility of CentOS
vs. RHEL.
Specifically, what I would like to do is use yum or spacewalk to apply
updates issued from CentOS directly onto my RHEL machines.
Does this work properly? Are there things that I need to be wary of ?
Have any of you had experience with this?
Please let me know of any information you may have.
Thanks in Advance.
SF
I think you need to pay the man and get your updates from Red Hat.
Or switch over wholesale to CentOS, and accept the lack of direct Red Hat
support. It sounds like maybe someone wants to buy one RHEL license and
install multiple hosts with it, and use CentOS to provide update access? I've
seen people do that, and exchanged harsh words with their managers about it.
Red Hat needs to pay their engineers for doing all this good stuff: pay for
the licenses.

We are not trying to rip off Red Hat for the licenses.

We just want a centralized system that does not cost $10K + per year
simply for the privilege.
Is that too much to ask?
Right now there is no business case to spend that kind of cash.
My thinking was to see if Spacewalk could be used to update RHEL. If
it needed to be tweaked a bit then that's fine.

Local mirror repository, rip out yum-rhn-plugin on all but the mirror, and use 'cfengine' for package management.

Currently, most of the stuff we want for our Linux environment we get
included with MS Windows and for less money. (RIS, WSUS, Etc...) So
because of that management's attitude is "Use Windows if possible".
Then big Billy G gets all the money and RH gets nothing.

We're a publicly funded organization so it all has to be on the up and
up, under budget and cost justified.

Fair enough. It ws just a thought of something I've seen several times in the real world, and which costs Red Hat a bunch of cash.
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