Hi,
The kernel will be going out today. It appears to be fine.
As far as the upgrade via anaconda, I do know that it works, but I do
not really know how messy it will be. That largely depends on your
customizations.
Personally, I always save things off and do a fresh install, and only
put back what has to be put back. But that is a personal preference.
RedHat has a very nice document on package changes between 4 and 5
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/release-notes/package-changes.html
Troy
Winnie Lacesso wrote:
Dear All,
Ever since RHEL released kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17 on 12 March I've been
expecting it to be available for our SL4 machines - but nothing yet.
In looking at the Kent mirror, kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17 appears in
40rolling/${basearch}/errata/SL/RPMS dated 13 March, but not in SL44 to 47,
or 4x (presumably 4x is just a pointer to 47)
Is there some problem with kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17 that it's not released for
SL44 to 47?
Also, has anyone done an upgrade SL4 => 5 via anaconda? Is it clean
or messy, recommended or disrecommended?
On a test machine long ago I did SL3 => SL4 upgrade via anaconda & it was
messy. Too much had changed, the cleanup from 3 to 4 left a lot of old SL3
cruft about, so decided fresh SL4 rebuild for our SL3 servers.
Now we have more SL4 servers, so if upgrade to SL5 via anaconda is
acceptably tidy we could try - if it's tidy it will be less work than
complete rebuild & chase down cumulative config tweaks... as you do.
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