On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:13:57PM -0400, Boyd, Robert wrote: > I see your point. > > This is what's on the web page. > > >When using RHEL 6, make sure you are subscribed to following RHN channel: > > > >*Red Hat Optional Server 6 > > At first I thought I had already done this. The statement doesn't give any > instruction on how to make sure. I knew I was already subscribed to RHEL6 > updates and thought I had subscribed to everything. But I hadn't and didn't > realize how to "make sure." I suggest adding a sentence or 2 that spells it > out for those of us who might be weaker with our yum-fu. And I like cookbook > instructions to be "complete" and spell out things like this. Make it so > everyone knows exactly how to do it. > > I suggest the additional text might look like this: > > In order to see if you are subscribed enter this command: > Yum repolist | grep rhel-6-server-optional-rpms > > If you see a line like this you are all set: > rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server - Optional > 5,154 > > If not, you will want to subscribe by entering this command: > yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
I have now reverted that wiki change -- the yum-config-manager will not work for machines registered to RHN, for example. We really should not try to cover all the RHEL administration steps there are -- there's RHEL documentation for that. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
