Re: U1 and ISV/HW Vendor certs

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> I suppose much of this is up to the vendors - but how will the release of U1
> affect applications and hardware certified against "RHEL 3 prime"?  

>From what I know now, this should/must have no impact.  My reasoning is
that U1 is exclusively the base release plus previously published
errata.  If the vendors do not support U1, then they're not supporting
the errata that have already been published, and that would be bad.

> because both Oracle and HP are due to announce support for RHEL 3 "real soon
> now" - and I'm trying to determine if RH is working with people like this so
> that U1 (and it's ilk) are seen purely as updates rather than a new release
> / re-release and therefore require (re)certification.

Red Hat employees (who probably don't speak on behalf of Red Hat) have
already said that U1 is only updates - if you have installed the base
plus all your errata, you gain/lose nothing by installing U1.

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