[NCLUG] RHEL Upgrade 4.6-4.8

[grant at amadensor.com]

How to do the upgrade is not a big deal, I am just wondering if anyone had
any issues with third party applications or hardware drivers when they did
it.

We are running PeopleSoft on Java application servers.   It is certified
on the new version, so we should be fine, but ideas on things that bit
others help on what we need to do the most testing on.


> On RHEL 4 if you are updating from RHN or a Satellite server you can do
> the
> following commands:
>
> up2date -u --dry-run
>
> Or if you want to update the kernel and other excluded packages:
>
> up2date -uf --dry-run
>
> These will output all of the packages that will be updated.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:00 PM, <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?
>>
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