well what I dont understand here is all of RHEL SRPMs are on a web
server an can be downloaded if you have an entitlement.
all you need is
1) the CA cert located here /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT on any Red Hat host.
2) the entitlement cert from subscription manager winch you can get
off of access.redhat.com go to Subscriptions -> Subscription
Management -> UNITs then click on the subscription you would like to
use. you will see a Download button on the top left side of the
screen.
3) on the page where you downloaded the certificate there is a sub tab
called Content Set take the URL's listed there and prefix them with
https://cdn.redhat.com

if you connect with a browser you can see its just a standard yum repo
which uses the certificates for authentication, so most yum mirroring
tools will work just fine as long as it can supply the the PKI
(entitlement) cert to their web server.



On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Steven Timm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was at the HEPiX meeting at which those slides were presented
> and there was further discussion during the course of the week
> as to what would happen.  RedHat/CentOS was also represented at that
> meeting in the person of Karanbir Singh.  You should not presume
> that the presentations given at that meeting are the final word.
>
> You notice that nobody with a cern.ch or fnal.gov E-mail address
> has responded to this thread up until now.  When they have
> something concrete they will respond with the details.
>
> Steve Timm
>
>
>
>>
>> It seems it is more likely that Scientific LInux 7 will become a Special
>> Interest Group (SIG) of CentOS 7. See the presentations at the Hepix
>> meeting
>> in Annecy Le Vieux, last May, on SL 10 years, notably the ones from Connie
>> Sieh and Jarek Polok:
>> http://indico.cern.ch/event/274555/session/11/#20140519
>>
>> Alain
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