[rhn-users] up2date vs iso updates

[Richard Riley]

The ISOs are not kept up to date with the latest updates.  That is the reason for running "up2date".  However, the kernel updates are not downloaded by default.  If you run "up2date -u" you will see at the end of the operation that some updates "usually only kernel" are excluded and you would need to run to use the -f (force) option to up2date to get them.  Then you would need to reboot the machine to apply them.

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From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Wim.de.Haan at dalsa.com
Sent: Thu 2/15/2007 4:11 AM
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Subject: [rhn-users] up2date vs iso updates



Hi, 
I'm new to Red Hat. 
I maintain a server with RHEL-4. 
I'm a bit confused on the RHEL4 ISOs which can be downloaded from RHN. 
The server came installed with RHEL-4 (base). 
After installing addtional packages, I ran up2date (over night) to install updates for all packages. 
Q: does that mean I'm now up to (or even above) the level of RHEL-4 update 4? 

Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet, 

Wim de Haan 

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