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You could just use yum's reposync to do this, no?
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Re^2: Mirror RHN channels for legal subscriptions behind firewall
by jasonk (Parson) on Sep 13, 2008 at 01:09 UTC

    Indeed, you can basically replace this whole script with:

    reposync | mail -s 'reposync downloaded new packages' foo@bar.com

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Re^2: Mirror RHN channels for legal subscriptions behind firewall
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 12, 2008 at 19:38 UTC
    Also I think there is an XMLRPC API that would be better than screen scraping.
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      Hi,
      nice. Do you have a link for some documentation on that API?
      Regards,
      svenXY
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Re^2: Mirror RHN channels for legal subscriptions behind firewall
by svenXY (Deacon) on Sep 15, 2008 at 06:47 UTC
    Hi,
    right, thanks, but our install/repo-server is not RHEL and is therefore not subscribed to RHN, so for this particular setup, reposync is not an option.
    Regards,
    svenXY
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      Nice solution. This is what we did: Chose a server that is subscribed to RHN. Created a Systemimager image of this server on another server. A script chroots into this image and runs up2date. We only download the packages and use yum to distribute them to other servers that cannot directly connect to RHN.
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        I get 
        Undefined subroutine &main::safe_get called at ../rhn_channel_download
+.pl line 75.

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        . How can this be solved? I use perl 5.10.1. And perl-URI-1.40-2.el6.noarch perl-HTML-TableExtract-2.10-1.el6.noarch perl-Digest-SHA-5.47-115.el6.x86_64 perl-WWW-Mechanize-1.62-1.el6.noarch perl-WWW-Mechanize-FormFiller-0.10-1.el6.noarch perl-Digest-SHA1-2.12-2.el6.x86_64 Best regards!
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