SMT RES support

Registering RHEL against SMT

The fresh RHEL 7 installation comes without any packages installed.

1. Enable the repository from the installation media:

# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
# cp /mnt/media.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/media.repo
# cat >> /etc/yum.repos.d/media.repo
enabled=1
baseurl=file:///mnt/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
^D

2. Run yum clean all
3. Download suseRegisterRES package:

mkdir /root/suse_reg_repo
cd /root/suse_reg_repo
wget -O http://nu.novell.com/repo/\$RCE/RES7/x86_64/RPMS/suseRegisterRES-1.3.4-16.1.noarch.rpm

4. Install createrepo:

yum install createrepo

5. Create repository for the suseRegisterRES package:

cd /root/suse_reg_repo
createrepo .

6. Add the newly created repo to yum:

# cat > /etc/yum.suse.repo/suse.repo
[SUSERegRepo]
name=SUSERegRepo
metadata_expire=-1
gpgcheck=0
cost=500
enabled=1
baseurl=file:///root/suse_reg_repo
^D

7. Run yum clean all
8. Install suse_register:

yum install suseRegisterRES.noarch

Register the system against SMT server

1. Enable RES repos on SMT server:

smt-repos -p RES,7

2. On the client, edit /etc/suseRegister.conf and change the url to the address of the SMT server
3. Run suse_register
4. Run yum clean all
5. Run yum --noplugins list to verify that RES repos show up in the list

Useful references:

1. SMT client RHEL
2. RHEL SMT update
3. http://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/RES7/x86_64/