RE: Red Hat: To patch or to upgrade?

From: Stephen Smoogen (smoogen@lanl.gov)
Date: 04/08/03

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From: Stephen Smoogen <smoogen@lanl.gov>
To: Martin <luditas@fibertel.com.ar>

    On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Martin wrote:

    >I had a 6.2 box, my first attempt was to patch it, upgrading the rpms in
    >use, since up2date was not an option there, it proved to be an akward
    >method (mainly because the lack of previous maintenance), so I finally
    >upgraded it to 7.2 and thereafter to 7.3, which was a smooth process
    >with no related issues, but then again it wasn't a production machine,
    >so anxiety levels were not very high ;-)
    >
    >I'll be doing the same with the rest of the boxes, probably to 7.3.
    >
    >I heard RedHat isn't going to release any more updates for 6.2, 7.0, 7.1
    >and 7.2. Does this fact apply to 7.3 also?

    Red Hat has end of lifed 6.2 and 7.0 as of March 31 2003. Red Hat
    7.1,7.2,7.3 will be end of lifed on Dec 31, 2003. 

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