Re: Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice

As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the
rhelv5-beta-list, and 
thread 
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhel
v5-beta-list/2007-February/msg00106.html) 
that a date is not freely available to give out.

The last public press release from Red Hat giving a rough
date that I 
know off is:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/r
hel5beta2.html
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in early
2007".

I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to restate in
another way 
for you  ...

  If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with
any current 
RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have deployed, then
those systems 
will need to be upgraded to at least RHN 4.2 Satellite or
RHN 4.2 Proxy 
prior to being able to use them with the yum based client in
Enterprise 
Linux 5 and code changes for rhn_register.

So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was
pointing to RHN 
(rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could register a
Enterprise 
Linux 5 system through it, but when you tried to use yum to
try and 
download packages, it would fail. While for a 4.1 Satellite,
both would 
fail.

Regards,
Cliff.


inode0 wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Nick Bruton <nick.brutonbristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can you give some idea of the timescale involved?
> 
> And if you can't give us any idea of the timescale
involved can you
> give us some idea of what will happen if RHEL5 is
released before
> these upgrades are completed?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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All,

FYI, I upgraded my 4.1 RHN Proxy to 4.2 successfully
yesterday  
afternoon.  I've confirmed RHEL 2.1, 3, 4, and RHEL 5 Beta 2
systems  
can all download packages through it.

I made the dive to upgrade to 4.2 because I figured in our
higher ed  
environment, *someone* will install RHEL 5 on the day it is 

released.  I'd rather not be caught unprepared 


Steven


On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Clifford Perry wrote:

> As I am sure you are aware, if you monitor the
rhelv5-beta-list,  
> and thread (https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2007-

> February/msg00106.html) that a date is not freely
available to give  
> out.
>
> The last public press release from Red Hat giving a
rough date that  
> I know off is:
> http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/r
hel5beta2.html
> "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to be released in
early 2007".
>
> I felt that Rich's email was fairly clear, but to
restate in  
> another way for you  ...
>
>  If you plan to use/deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
with any  
> current RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy systems you have
deployed, then  
> those systems will need to be upgraded to at least RHN
4.2  
> Satellite or RHN 4.2 Proxy prior to being able to use
them with the  
> yum based client in Enterprise Linux 5 and code changes
for  
> rhn_register.
>
> So, for example, if you have a 4.1 RHN Proxy which was
pointing to  
> RHN (rhn.redhat.com, xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com) you could
register a  
> Enterprise Linux 5 system through it, but when you
tried to use yum  
> to try and download packages, it would fail. While for
a 4.1  
> Satellite, both would fail.
>
> Regards,
> Cliff.
>
>
> inode0 wrote:
>> On 3/1/07, Nick Bruton <nick.brutonbristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can you give some idea of the timescale
involved?
>> And if you can't give us any idea of the timescale
involved can you
>> give us some idea of what will happen if RHEL5 is
released before
>> these upgrades are completed?
>> Thanks,
>> John
>> _______________________________________________
>> rhn-users mailing list
>> rhn-usersredhat.com
>> htt
ps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users
>
> -- 
> Clifford Perry
> Team Lead, RHN Sustaining Engineering
> Red Hat, Inc.
> http://www.redhat.com/
> +1 919 754 4403
> RHCE# 803004507210710
>
> _______________________________________________
> rhn-users mailing list
> rhn-usersredhat.com
> htt
ps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users

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