[rhn-users] Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice

[Clifford Perry]

As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the rhelv5-beta-list, and 
thread 
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2007-February/msg00106.html) 
that a date is not freely available to give out.

The last public press release from Red Hat giving a rough date that I 
know off is:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/rhel5beta2.html
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early 2007".

I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to restate in another way 
for you :o) ...

  If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with any current 
RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have deployed, then those systems 
will need to be upgraded to at least RHN 4.2 Satellite or RHN 4.2 Proxy 
prior to being able to use them with the yum based client in Enterprise 
Linux 5 and code changes for rhn_register.

So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was pointing to RHN 
(rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could register a Enterprise 
Linux 5 system through it, but when you tried to use yum to try and 
download packages, it would fail. While for a 4.1 Satellite, both would 
fail.

Regards,
Cliff.


inode0 wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Nick Bruton <nick.bruton at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can you give some idea of the timescale involved?
> 
> And if you can't give us any idea of the timescale involved can you
> give us some idea of what will happen if RHEL5 is released before
> these upgrades are completed?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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