<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11715"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11718">Why don't you save all important configs and any database with tar, move them off the server in question and then pop in a 5.5 iso/cdrom and do an an upgrade? Curiously, why not upgrade to 5.10 or 5.11? RedHat does not even still support 5.6. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11727" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11718">When you boot up with the iso or cdrom, you will be presented with option to either install new or upgrade existing system. Choose upgrade. After upgrading you can then do a subscription to the desired channels (5.5). On the SW webUI, then do a software upgrade. In /etc/yum.repos.d remove all old 5.4 *.repo files, rm -rf /var/cache/yum, yum clean all, yum makecache, yum update/upgrade <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11721" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11728">Subscribing 5.4 to a 5.5 software channel has not worked for me. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11722"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11731" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_11730"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12310" size="4" color="#0000ff" face="comic sans ms"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12309">Oh yes, you can make today a great day! Thanks.<br><span></span><br><span></span>Very Respectfully,<br><span></span>A. C. Kebei</em></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12312"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12315" size="4" color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS"><em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12314"><br><span></span>Always, Very Committed to Excellence and the fair treatment of all.</em></font></div></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12319" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12318" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12317" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12321" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Reneau, Wes W [HDS]" <Wes.Reneau@hdsupply.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:38 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Spacewalk-list] upgrade client from 5.4 to 5.5<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12323" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6680748526"> <style></style> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12328"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12327" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12326" style="font-size:12pt;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12325">I’ve bounced around on google but haven’t found the right syntax to find a valid hit that explains how I might upgrade one “.” revision. In this case I have RHEL 5.4 server I’d like to upgrade to 5.5.</div> <div> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12330">I modified its base channel from 5.4 to the 5.5 w/ all its dependencies and tried an upgrade in spacewalk only to find it failed w/ conflicts from rhn-client-tools and up2date and so on.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12332"> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12334">Is there a best practice someone can point me to or recommendations?</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12336"> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12338">Thanks</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418323617468_12340"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Wes </span></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></div> <div><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></div> </span></font> </div> </div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Spacewalk-list mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>