[NCLUG] RHEL Upgrade 4.6-4.8

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:00:15 -0700 (MST)
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.

The release notes should:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/#RHEL4

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4.8/html/Release_Notes/index.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release-notes/U7/x86/index.html

> Has anyone done a similar upgrade?   Anything in particular that went
> poorly?

In general they work just fine. The ABI should stay the same, etc. 

kevin
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