Stephen L Johnson wrote: > > I'm looking for advice on if upgrading servers to newer RHEL versions > sooner is a good idea or not. That is going from RHEL 5.0 to 5.1 or RHEL > 5.0 to 5.3. Or if I should leave well enough alone.
Note that package updates for RHEL, whether security or bugfixes, are handled differently than how IBM maintains AIX Technology Levels. IBM TL's are multi-forked trees of fileset releases, so a security or bug fix can result in updated filesets for several TL's. Red Hat updates are linear within a major releases (RHEL4, RHEL5), so if you're running RHEL 5.2, any patches are just steps along the way to RHEL 5.3. A notable exception is kernel RPMs, which can get multiple releases at different update levels (sometimes, anyway). -- Hello World. David Bronder - Systems Admin Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
