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Not that this is a supported upgrade path but since this was a
development box with a valid rhn entitlement I figured "what 's the worst
thing that can happen? " I figured I would just re-install from CD. My
thought process was as follows, RPM 's are just a bunch of binaries, with
some tags for the RPM database, right? Well what would happen if I
replaced the RPM on the system that houses /etc/redhat-release
(redhat-release- <version >) with the one from the AS 3 cd? Well I did
that using an rpm -Uvh redhat-release* and then did an up2date
--upgrade-to-release=rhel-i386-as-3 and then an up2date -uf, well it
told me that I had 96 or so packages to download and it downloaded some
dependancy type RPM 's but it now comes back as the following when I run...
up2date -u
Fetching package list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...
Fetching rpm headers...
Name Version Rel
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
All packages are currently up to date
Pretty cool, not supported or supportable by RedHat, but this system was
pretty basic so I figured why not.
--Ed
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Ed Griffin
Assistant Network/System Administrator
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Weather Sensing Group
(781) 981-2871
mailto:edg@(protected)
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