RE: rhn_register / up2date hacking

Take a look at the oemid field that rhnreg_ks can send you.
The hacked up rhnreg_ks might be a place to start.

(If you're using the 2.7.6x clients, my changes shouldn't be too hard to
forward port)


On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 17:53, Patrick Devine wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
> 
> > what kinda modifications are you talking about?  i made my own rpms, and 
> > kickstart installation to interact with rhn_register
> 
> Well, the configuration screens in rhn_register are kind of useless 
> because they're so "Red Hat"-centric.  I was going to replace them with 
> something potentially keyed off of a serial number of a product, but I 
> haven't really decided quite how it's going to work yet.
> 
> I actually have been rewriting some fairly big chunks of anaconda and the 
> installation loader, so I've been playing around with newt a lot lately.  
> I wasn't very happy with the way Disk Druid worked, so I ended up changing 
> it to make partitioning a little more intuitive.
> 
> up2date right now works fine, although since I'm not using the X I was 
> thinking of ripping all of the X functionality out of it.. but that's 
> probably a waste of time (plus I'd have to maintain it).
> 
> --Patrick.
> 
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