On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:19 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > Feel surprised to find in the RHEL 5.3 release notes the following > statement: > > ---- > While anaconda's "upgrade" option will perform an upgrade from > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 or 5.2 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux > 5.3, there is no guarantee that the upgrade will preserve all > of a system's settings, services, and custom configurations. > For this reason, Red Hat recommends that you perform a fresh > installation rather than an upgrade. > ---- > > So they are advising to reinstall RHEL 5.3 even when you're running RHEL > 5.2. *speaking _for me / as me_, as always, etc.* I don't see the above text in the release notes, but what I do see is the top section of: https://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Installation_Related_Notes.html ...which implies (to me) that the text you quoted is saying something like "although a 4.7 => 5.3 upgrade has the same UI as 5.2 => 5.3, you shouldn't expect it to work as well in all cases". And, of course, that's all anaconda specific ... going 5.2 => 5.3 via. "yum update" is expected to just work. -- James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> Fedora