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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list