Red Hat would like to correct inaccurate information in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Beta announcement and Release Notes about supported update functionality.
Red Hat does not support in-place upgrades between major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Although anaconda's "upgrade" option will allow users to perform an upgrade from earlier major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (such as Enterprise Linux 4 to Enterprise Linux 5), there is no guarantee that the upgrade will result in a working configuration. In-place upgrades across major releases do not preserve all system settings, services, and custom configurations. For this reason, Red Hat strongly recommends that you perform a fresh installation rather than a system upgrade between major versions. However, Red Hat does support updates between the GA releases of minor versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat recommends that users updating from one minor version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (such as 5.0 or 5.1) to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 do so from Red Hat Network using the hosted Web user interface, Red Hat Network Satellite, the local graphical Updater, or the yum command line. Even if no network connectivity is available, an update can still be performed offline using anaconda's "upgrade" functionality. Note that anaconda has limited abilities to handle issues such as dependencies on additional repositories or third-party applications. And, unlike yum, anaconda reports installation errors in a log file instead of interactively. Because of these limitations, Red Hat advises customers to test and verify offline updates using the exact configuration before applying the update to the actual target environment, and to carefully review the update log for errors after applying the update. Finally, please note that Red Hat does not support system upgrades from the beta release to the GA product. Sincerely, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux team. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list rhelv5-beta-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
