Fedora box with RHEL subscription

[Michael Cronenworth]

Ryan Lynch wrote:
> I had a similar problem, a while back. I think 'mrepo' has marginal
> support for pulling packages down from RHN, and I believe I got it
> working on F11, but I can't quite remember. If there IS a way to do
> it, though, I would bet on mrepo.

I tried following the rhn instructions in the mrepo package, but 
gensystemid fails with a different traceback. I even installed the RHEL 
5 RPMs for all of these tools without a change in the failures.

This just adds more hatred into my already quite full Python hatred basket.