Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Because it's probably the easiest transition to something supported. RHAS is more-or-less RHL 7.2, and in my ignorance I think it the likely source for most RHL 7.3 fixes over time. It's the first place I would look. If the transition is likely to work, it should do so with a minimum of fuss and bother - binaries are compatible, for example, and might not even require a reboot (except maybe to change kernels).
The tactic I used on 7.3 boxes was to simply use upgrades from CentOS 2.1. Here and there it required manual tweaks, but more or less it worked very nice. All my 7.3 boxes used to run kernels, openssl, apache and more or less everything else important from 2.1. If your servers followed "minimal install" route, this option might work nicely for you. Just subscribe to Red Hat's enterprise watch list, and install updated packages as updates are released. Needs some manual maintenance but at least you don't need to go through full update process.
Your experience is about what I expected.
Note re watch list; I'm on it, it's a little noisy (covers all releases), but doesn't have all updates. The only way I know to find all updates (short of having a real RHN account) is to watch the source ftp directory, and even that's not always up2date ) discovered.