[NCLUG] RHEL Upgrade 4.6-4.8

Brian Wood bwood at beww.org
Mon Nov 9 16:16:15 MST 2009


On Monday 09 November 2009 16:00:15 grant at amadensor.com wrote:
> We are looking at upgrading some machines from 4.6 to 4.8.    The
> production machines are getting new hardware and need the newer kernel to
> work.
>
> Does anyone have a good way to tell what packages or functionality will be
> upgraded?   I want to get a good list together of what we need to test
> before we let them break production.
>
> I have looked at Red Hat's site, but it only tells me about 3-4, not minor
> versions like 4.6 to 4.8.
>
> Has anyone done a similar upgrade?   Anything in particular that went
> poorly?

I forwarded this to Jarod Wilson, a kernel developer for RH, hopefully he can 
enlighten you a bit.

-- 
Brian Wood
bwood at beww.org



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