<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 October 2010 02:22, Nico Kadel-Garcia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nkadel@gmail.com">nkadel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Van der Kussen<br>
<<a href="mailto:Vincent.VanderKussen@btr-services.be">Vincent.VanderKussen@btr-services.be</a>> wrote:<br>
> I was just wondering if there was an upgrade path from RHEL6 beta2/RC to the final RHEL6 version. I would like to start using RHEL6 b2 for some machines and then later on register them in RHN.<br>
> Not sure if this will be possible?<br>
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</div>Besides setting up a local yum repository with "reposync" and doing<br>
"yum update" against that repository? I use that for providing local<br>
kickstart installation repositories, and have for years, to avoid the<br>
subscription awkwardness with RHN. I do make sure to buy enough<br>
licenses for all the hosts!!!!<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It is entirely possible that RHEL6-final uses some rpms that are older than the ones that were in the beta release because the beta release ones were too buggy, incompatible and broken. If you do a yum upgrade you'll leave those buggy, incompatible and broken RPMs in place.<br>
<br>Even worse, it's entirely possible that beta anaconda does something unspeakable which is not fixed by some later component RPM and only a re-install will fix it.<br><br>Of course, most of the time neither of these things will happen, but you can't be sure and you probably can't check for some of the wackier failure modes.<br>
<br>Re-install.<br><br>jch<br></div></div>