I work in an environment that has many "installation numbers" --
anyone familiar with this knows the dread I experience when I do to
install a new system.

Redhat tells me there is no way to consolidate these entitlements into
or under one "installation number", which puzzles me. But anyway ...

I wonder how others have managed to work with, around, under this
process -- to make it more sane. Or if that's even possible.

I thought about just caching the RPMs locally and pointing my systems
to that instead. But that would be even more work. There has to be a
better way.

I would appreciate some feedback, suggestions, etc.


Thanks...