Re: upgrade path from U4 beta to release U4?

[Eric Hagberg MorganStanley com]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > 	2) Unsupported because it is a bad bad idea
>
> Imo it usually falls under this. The reason is that we regularly go back
> to a package version of a package that is older than the beta (say, for
> example, because the beta package showed defects that we couldn't fix in
> time). Using RHN to upgrade to the final update leaves the "newest"
> package in place, which in this scenario is actually the known defective
> package.
> I'm not sure how often this happens, but it happens enough for the RH
> folks to really not like this option..

In that case, it'd be good to have an option to up2date so that it could
report on rpm versions that are newer than those the channels to which
you're subscribed. That way you could easily track this sort of problem
and keep it from biting you - and Red Hat could more easily tell that this
had been done.