Fetching and building dependencies automatically

[Karanbir Singh]

Brian Candler wrote:
> Unfortunately I need to do this for RHEL 4, which is not one of the
> supported distributions.
> 
> It ought to be similar enough to either a Fedora variant or CentOS 4
> (although etc/dist.d/centos-4-i386 doesn't seem to reference freshrpms)

should be easy enough to add freshrpms support in there..

> However, we use a local satellite server here. So I guess I'll have to work
> out either how to use yum to talk to it (instead of up2date), or else see
> about modifying mach to use up2date.
> 

you could use mrepo [1] to mirror the stuff down from the rhn-satellite 
to the local machine or another machine that can then be used against 
yum/apt/up2date even.

[1] http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/

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