Redhat 8 to 9

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Michael Kratz <mkratz at internode.com.au>:

> I've got a redhat 8 server, and out of interest I configured yum to use the
> redhat 9 repositories, then toyed with yum update <insert popular package>

If you are going to do that, you might as well just update the OS to RH 9
via yum/apt.

> My question is, is this a bad thing to do, and would it really break
> anything by upgrading some things to the Redhat 9 versions?

Well, it will be hard to get support, or even dubug problems, when you mix
packages.  I'd suggest you try to stay, in general, with one or the other.
But that is just a convenience/support/debugging issue.  There's nothing
inherently wrong with what you are doing.

But if you want the newer packages, I'd just upgrade the OS.  I did a RH 8.0
to RH 9 upgrade via apt-get the other day.  Was painless, and only downtime
was the reboot to load the new kernel in.

Now I'm trying to decide what to do with my RH 7.2 machines (upgrade to
RH 7.3, or upgrade to RH 9.0).

> --
> michael

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Eric Rostetter