Installation guide

Chapter 3. Red Hat Satellite Proxy Information
This is a section on using Red Hat Satellite Proxy with the Red Hat Network Package Manager.
3.1. Using the Red Hat Network Package Manager and Serving
Local Packages through the Red Hat Network Proxy
The Red Hat Network Package Manager is a command line tool that allows an organization to serve
local packages associated with a private Red Hat Network channel through the Red Hat Network Proxy
Server. To update only official Red Hat packages for the Red Hat Network Proxy Server, do not install
the Red Hat Network Package Manager.
To use the Red Hat Network Package Manager, install the spacewalk-proxy-package-m anager
package and its dependencies.
Only the header information for packages is uploaded to the Red Hat Network Servers. The headers are
required so that Red Hat Network can resolve package dependencies for the client systems. The actual
package files (* .rpm ) are stored on the Red Hat Network Proxy Server.
The Red Hat Network Package Manager uses the same settings as the Proxy, defined in the
/etc/rhn/rhn.conf configuration file.
Here is a summary of all the command line options for Red Hat Network Package Manager
rhn_package_manager:
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