Re: What's the relationship between yum and rhnplugin?

> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:53 +0800, Bo Xie wrote:
> > I know RHEL 5 uses yum and rhnplugin to access RHEL 5 RHN.
> >
> > My question are:
> > (1) Can I use yum+rhnplugin to access RHEL 3/4 RHN? Is there any
> > difference between "RHEL 3/4 RHN repository" and "RHEL 5 repository"?


I don't think so.  RHN was updated to work with RHEL 5 so I think you still
need up2date  for RHEL 3 and RHEL 4.  Besides the python included in RHEL 3
wouldn't support the yum versions required for rhnplugin.

> (2) Can I use yum+rhnplugin to access RHN's counterpart 'current'
> > (current.tigris.org)?


I haven't looked at current so I couldnt' tell you.

> (3) I assume 'RHEL 5 RHN' is still a 'RHN repository', not a normal
> > 'yum repository' created by 'yum-arch' or 'createrepo'. I mean Red Hat
> > only changes the update *client* from up2date to yum, but does not
> > change the repository from RHN repository to yum repository.Am I
> > right?


You are, yum can access repositories other than classic yum repositories.
Provided you have the proper plugin.  The rhnplugin allows Red Hat to
provide the superior functionality yum provides from a client perspective
for access to their RHN channels.

Russell

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