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Chapter 6.

Uploading and Maintaining Custom

Packages

Depending upon which Red Hat Network service is used, there are two different mechanisms for

uploading packages to private channels.

Customers of RHN Proxy Server use the RHN Package Manager application, which sends package

header information to the central Red Hat Network Servers and places the package itself into the local

repository of the Proxy that invoked RHN Package Manager.

Customers of RHN Satellite Server use the RHN Push application, which sends package header

information to the local RHN Satellite Server and places the package into the local repository of the

Satellite that invoked RHN Push.

This chapter discusses both of these tools in detail.

Warning

If you use both RHN Proxy Server and RHN Satellite Server, use only RHN Push. The Proxy-

Satellite combination requires custom packages and channels be uploaded to the Satellite only.

From there, the Proxy servers obtain the packages and distribute them to client systems.

6.1. Uploading Packages to RHN Proxy Server

RHN Package Manager allows an organization to serve custom packages associated with a private

RHN channel through the RHN Proxy Server. If you want the RHN Proxy Server to serve only official

Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages, you do not need to install RHN Package Manager.

To use the RHN Package Manager, install the rhns-proxy-package-manager RPM package and

its dependencies. This package is available to registered RHN Proxy Server systems and is installed

by running up2date rhns-proxy-package-manager.

Note

Only the header information for the packages is uploaded to the RHN Servers. The headers

are required so that RHN can resolve package dependencies for the client systems. The actual

package files (*.rpm) are stored on the RHN Proxy Server. For this reason, custom packages

cannot be downloaded through the RHN website, although they are listed. They must be

retrieved by the client system using up2date.

6.1.1. Configuring and Using the RHN Package Manager

Before you can use RHN Package Manager to upload packages into RHN, you need to first manually

copy the packages to the Proxy server itself. For example, from a development host you can use scp:

When using RHN Package Manager to upload the packages into Red Hat Network, point at the files

you previously copied to the server.

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