On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Will Dinkel wrote:
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 13:29, Joe Pruett wrote:
maybe some of the 3.4 beta discussion has covered this, i wasn't watching it too closely.
what is going to be the process to convert a system from 3.3 to 3.4? will a simple yum update work?
yes
or do we have to do something more intentional to make it happen? how does redhat handle u3->u4 updates? i assume that since u4 has been published that security patches from rh will only apply to u4? or do they also supply security patches for u3 for some period of time?
Redhat only have one tree of updates for rhel 3.
Security fixes have been applied to the 3.3 trees already. A yum update should apply them for you. As for the bug fixes and enhancements, I have added some of those to the 3.3 x86_64 tree, with the rest of them to follow shortly. Thus, eventually, a yum update will essentially move you to 3.4.
I believe the i386 3.3 tree will be similar, unless I've missed something.
I will also be posting a separate 3.4 tree for x86_64, complete with isos. It is being built and will be tested soon.
well in fact 3.4 will actually go to 3/ and we will be moving the old repos for 3.1 & 3.3 to an old-updates directory that isnt mirrored.
3.1 & 3.3 will become symlinks to 3/ and anyone that updates will get 3.4
centos-release will have version 3/ and epoch 2 to facilitate this transition.
This is to become dag compatible and to make updates easier.
Lance