Hi, actually it is worth testing and we like to see the feedback. We know that there are problems like the one Stephen ran into. And there will be more because of changes in packaging. That is why it is unsupported. But still we do not want to keep people from trying - just set the expectations right.
We are planning to re-fresh the rhn channels on the way to RC at least a number of times. That will be an impact comparable to an update release and we would really appreciate testing of the updating! Regards, Daniel On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 12:56 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 11/21/06, Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I was just testing to see if I could update a beta1 system to beta2 > > > using yum (this would be a test for us to see how yum worked through > > > the proxy... I really didn't care if the box didnt boot and ate my > > > disks afterwords) > > > > Updating between beta version isn't supported or tested I believe, your > > best off with a clean install. However, if you really want to do this > > I've had some luck in similar situations in the past by downloading and > > manually installing certain "critical" rpms like yum, rhn, kernel, > > redhat-release and such. Then retrying the yum update, if you hit a snag, > > use RPM to forcefully remove the troublesome old package and install the > > new one. > > > > Your of course well out of the bounds of a supported and even tested > > system here... > > > > Yeah.. the idea was to see how yum would handle large updates because > at some point RHEL-5.1 will be released.. and I will need to update > 200 servers. I figure start testing now versus in Oct of next year :). > > -- Daniel Riek, Product Manager Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.redhat.com/ Key-FP: 3DD7 C376 C3E0 1917 9A63 6343 5A26 2C59 6C07 6F32
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