Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 120142
3.2.0 doc addition, section 1.7, point out that on new versions rhn_register is a symlink to up2date
Last modified: 2009-08-19 23:04:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Description of problem: We should point out that newer versions of up2date actually include rhn_register Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHNpro(EN)-3.2-Print-RHI(2004-03-16T17:59) Actual Results: we do explain the old rhn_register but fail to explain that (on RHEL 3 for example) we now have rhn_register functionality in up2date and that the former is only a symlink to the latter. Expected Results: Explain the above and also explain that on first use up2date will act like it was called as 'up2date --register' Additional info: I do not know at which version we started this, up2date-4.2.5-1 includes the register functionality, in up2date-2.9.3-2.2.1AS there still is a separate rhn_register-2.9.3-1.2.1AS
the comment also applies to section 6.1 Configuring the Red Hat Network Registration client
Yeah, I tried to address this in the chapters and sections specifically describing up2date and rhn_register (see the Warning at the beginning of chapters 2 and 6 and the first paragraph of section 2.2. Registration for examples) but this really should be brought up at the first reference to the tools, in this case, the section you mention. While I'm doing this, I'll also remove references to old, deprecated RHL versions and add a mention of RHEL 3. Accepting, aligning to the next (3.3.0) release, marking customer facing, and blocking the 330 doc tracking bug.
Alrighty, I've explained fully in this section that RHEL 2.1 users need to use rhn_register but RHEL 3 customers have registration functionality built into up2date. Perhaps more importantly, I've used this task as a springboard to remove all references to RHL systems, as the last (RHL 9) is reaching its end of life before the next RHN release. This affected all of the Notes and Warnings describing the rhn_register requirement for older distributions scattered throughout the RHUA and RHNRC client chapters, as well as other areas. In fact, no RHL references should now exist in the reference guide whatsoever.
Done a long time ago. Closing.