Jack Neely wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:09:27PM +0000, Tom Hodder wrote: > >>Quoting Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison@xxxxxxxxx>: >>I noticed that my redhat-release package has been upgraded to the wrong >>version >>as well. >>[root@sdat0007 boot]# cat /etc/redhat-release >>Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 6) >>[root@sdat0007 boot]# >>[root@sdat0007 boot]# rpm -qa |grep release >>redhat-release-3ES-13.6.2 >> >> > > > Its the redhat-release package that is the only really important > difference between the different flavors of RHEL. The kernel is the > same across all of the flavors. Replace redhat-release with an AS > version and your machine will magically revert to being an AS box. > > Jack > Ahh ... the fun things that a certain vendor with rose colored headgear does. redhat-release-3ES beats redhat-release-3AS and redhat-release-3WS beats redhat-release-3ES Why? just because E beats A, and W beats E, simple numeric order. So, you're rather lucky you didn't have some WS machines you put in the yum repository or all your machines would have been further downgraded to WS. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
