Upgrade from RHEL 3 AS B2 (patched) to AS

[Ed Griffin <edg ll mit edu>]

Not that this is a supported upgrade path but since this was a 
development box with a valid rhn entitlement I figured "what's the worst 
thing that can happen?"  I figured I would just re-install from CD.  My 
thought process was as follows, RPM's are just a bunch of binaries, with 
some tags for the RPM database, right?  Well what would happen if I 
replaced the RPM on the system that houses /etc/redhat-release 
(redhat-release-<version>) with the one from the AS 3 cd?  Well I did 
that using an rpm -Uvh redhat-release* and then did an up2date 
--upgrade-to-release=rhel-i386-as-3 and then an up2date -uf, well it 
told me that I had 96 or so packages to download and it downloaded some 
dependancy type RPM's but it now comes back as the following when I run...

up2date -u

Fetching package list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------

All packages are currently up to date


Pretty cool, not supported or supportable by RedHat, but this system was 
pretty basic so I figured why not.

--Ed

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Ed Griffin
Assistant Network/System Administrator
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Weather Sensing Group
(781) 981-2871
mailto:edg ll mit edu
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