[Yum] Re: RHL 2.1AS and yum?

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The current RHAS 2.1 kernel is 2.4.9-e10.

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.rossberry.com

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Tom Diehl wrote:

> On 4 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:08, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I was wondering if anyone has tried to upgrade from 7.2 to 2.1AS using yum??
> > > I have built most of it from the .src rpms but for some reason I cannot get
> > > the right combination of anaconda, libs and kernels to allow me to get 2.1AS
> > > installed on the machine. I am thinking about bypassing the anaconda problems
> > > by using yum to do the upgrade. I got 99% of the rpms to build using a 
> > > partially updated 7.2 box as a compile box.
> > > 
> > 
> > provided that the rpms are newer (ie, higher e-v-r) then it should work.
> 
> Makes perfect sense. I would not expect trying to go the other way to work.
> 
> > I did a fair number of rhl 7.1->7.3 and rhl 7.2->7.3 upgrades with yum -
> > and barring some dumb pkging bugs they worked pretty ok.
> 
> Understood
> 
> > Specifically look out for the kernel <2.4.7 and mkinitrd
> > 
> > in short - remove the older kernels.
> 
> 2.1AS uses a 2.4.9 series kernel. I am not sure what the errata kernel
> is but at this point I suppose there is no reason not to just compile all
> of the errata stuff and do it with the yum update. 
> 
> Do you agree or is there a reason to do it after the inital upgrade??
> 
> > I upgraded a primary file server from 7.2 to 7.3 in place, other than
> > the reboot it works just fine.
> 
> OOH!! I like that!!
> 
> Thanks for the info,
> 
> 



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