Centos is essentially RHEL without the Redhat branding, so the versioning should mirror the RH versions. Centos's major releases lag 4-8 weeks behind the RH versions. This translates to the Centos mirrors living the same period after a RH version is EOL'd.
I've patched RHAS2.1 boxes with centos updates in the past. Andrew Geiger MIS Administrator TS Trim Industries, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Murphy, Brian S CTR USAF AFSPC 83 NOS/Det 4 [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:10 PM To: Andrew Geiger; [email protected] Subject: RE: RHEL ES 3 Kernel Upgrade Issue Ah - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/updates/i386/RPMS/ has kernel-2.4.21-63.EL.i686.rpm and kernel-smp-2.4.21-63.EL.i686.rpm both dated 4 Nov 2009 - looks good. Is there some way to know how that translates to kernel.org versions (or are they patches to 2.4.21 put out to fix CVE issues)? Or how other CentOS RPMs there translate to "vendor versions" (BIND shows 9.2.4-25, but ISC's named versions are at 9.4.x and 9.6.x, etc.)? Thanks! Brian -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Geiger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:30 AM To: Murphy, Brian S CTR USAF AFSPC 83 NOS/Det 4; [email protected] Subject: RE: RHEL ES 3 Kernel Upgrade Issue Check the centos repository at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/. Andrew Geiger MIS Administrator TS Trim Industries, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Murphy, Brian S CTR USAF AFSPC 83 NOS/Det 4 Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RHEL ES 3 Kernel Upgrade Issue Need to patch some old kernels (2.4.21-47) to a newer version - kernel.org says the latest version is 2.4.37.9 (not a RH designation, AFAICT), and RedHat apparently stopped supporting RHEL 3 kernel patches (will fully stop in Aug 2010, but no known kernel RPMs for this version). Are there RPMs for this or do I need to compile the full kernel (my Google searches showed no RPMs, but the community may know of other resources)? Also, can the patches be used or are they only relevant to the last major revision (3rd dotted number), resulting in 15 "patches" to get to major version #s to get to the latest patch? I'm assuming that I can't really go from the 2.4 train to the 2.6 train (i.e., use a 2.6 RPM) without incurring significant issues with system functions (networking especially) - or is that not the case? Can a 2.6 kernel work fine with a system installed using 2.4? Is there a good How To" on this? My Google searches turned up little for versions this recent - mostly geared to RH7.x kernels. Thanks in advance for insight on this, Brian _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
