Availability and plans for upgrading to RHEL5?

[Sam Flory]

Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> [This question may just reveal how clueless I am as a system
> administrator. If so, please forgive me.]
> 
> I just noticed that Red Hat has released RHEL5. Searching the archives
> of this list for RHEL5 didn't turn up anything germane. I read the
> Linux-poweredge FAQ about not announcing upgrades in advance, due to FTC
> regulations. However, can anything be revealed? In particular:
> 
> Will the upgrade from RHEL4 to 5 happen automatically if we use
> 'up2date'. If not, what controls when it happens?
> 
> Any documentation available yet?
> 
> Any hints on upcoming dates?
> 
> Thanks. Hope this isn't common knowledge that I've somehow overlooked.


  Red Hat doesn't automatically update you from one version to the next.
    Half the point of RHEL is that it's stable.  RHEL 4 will be around
and supported for at least 2 years. (maybe 5?)  Also last I checked RHEL
doesn't support online updates from version to version.  (What do you
think this is debian???)

  What you'll need to do is get a installation cdrom/dvdrom, reboot, and
upgrade the box.  If you have a RHN login you can generally download it
from their site.  (RH doesn't really care which version you run if you
are giving them money for support.)


PS- Personally unless there is something in RHEL 5 that you can't live
without.  I'd wait 6 months.  Let everyone else suffer through finding,
and fixing all the various bugs.