I noticed when I just now installed from the 5.1 download (yesterday) that the optional package Base System-Base-netconfig is not available on 5.1 and was on 5.0 during the install dialog.
Don't know how much this matters to anyone, but I was surprised to see it gone. Bill Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:09 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5 --> RHEL 5.1 Brandon Hutchinson wrote: > Hello, > > From a package perspective, will a system built with RHEL 5 media and > another with RHEL 5.1 media be identical after they are updated > against RHN channels? In this case, we're only using the > rhel-i386-server-5 (core server) RHN channel. > > Would this also be the case with previous RHEL releases? For example, > would RHEL 4 AS and RHEL 4 AS Update 6 produce the same system after > the packages are fully updated? In theory, yes. However, if you were to make any changes to any config files before updating, you might wind up with .rpmnew and .rpmorig, etc. config files laying about on the updated system, and its possible something will get set up slightly different by a newer installer vs. the original installer plus updates (can't think of anything off the top of my head, but the handling of certain hardware does occasionally change -- maybe something like NIC ordering on a specific platform). -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
