Convert Redhat 4 ES to AS?

Wed Apr 7 16:21:45 UTC 2010

Paul, 

If you are planning on using up2date to do this include the "--dry-run" feature and see what happens? Up2date also has a few more options that you might need like:   --installall=<channel-label>,  --show-channels, --upgrade-to-release
              Upgrade to the channel specified


>Message: 12
>Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:19:56 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Paul Robertson <probertson at unixway.com>
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Convert Redhat 4 ES to AS?
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>We installed a third-party application onto a Redhat 4 ES server
>recently. Due to some unfortunate application issues, we'd like to
>upgrade to the next version of the application, but the vendor claims
>the next version is supported only on Redhat 4 AS.

>Is there a supported process to "convert" an existing Redhat 4 ES server
>to AS? Alternatively, it appears that there are just a few differences:
>>
>  http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4259963

>Is it as simple as replacing the three ES RPMS with their AS equivalents
>and then re-entitling the server at RHN with an AS license?

>Cheers,

>Paul
>