Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 1 *Beta* AvailabilityAnnouncement

[Tim Powers <timp redhat com>]

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:59:16AM -0500, Tim Powers wrote:
>
> > Peter Bowen wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 15:43, Tim Powers wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > 	Will the original release of RHEL 3 ISOs remain "active" on the RHN
> > > > > "software" tab?
> > > Once U1 is out, will Red Hat continue to release targeted security
> > > erratas based on the original packages, where necessary, or will all
> > > future security updates only extend the U1 versions of packages?
> >
> > First, it's safe to consider the changed packages in Update 1 as a 
> > collection of erratas.
>
>
> Does this imply that if we install all of the errata that have come out
> - i.e.  we're current with up2date - does this mean that we do not gain
> anything by installing U1?

All of the changes in U1 will appear as errata updates in up2date. As 
long as you're running up2date there's no reason to perform a CD update 
or fresh install.

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Tim Powers
Technical Lead, Release Engineering
Red Hat, Inc.