[Sussex] Access to RHEL updates without subscription

[Jon Fautley]

On Monday 30 May 2005 23:18, Paul Tansom wrote:
> Not my machines unfortunately, if they were they'd be wiped and
> installed with Debian in the blink of an eye ;) I hadn't thought about
> ftp'ing the sources down.

Obviously, as per the license agreement, you'd need to remove all Red Hat 
trademarks and branding from these packages before compiling and installing 
them on your system.

> I guess mainly because I assumed that up2date 
> would grab anything it was able to get, but it is clearly not that
> sophisticated (as in being able to work with a mixture of subscription
> and freely available packages). 

The command line you're looking for to download the source packages is:

up2date --nox --src --download kernel-source

However, as up2date is the 'frontend' for the RHN, you won't be able to 
download those packages without a valid subscription.

Also - up2date plays very well with 3rd party package resources here, which 
ones are you trying to use, and what exactly is the problem?

Thanks,

Jon
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