Upgrading RH 9 to RHEL 3: problems? gotchas? what are your experiences?

From: Jeffrey Silverman (jeffrey_at_jhu.edu)
Date: 05/18/04

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    Hi all. I have a couple of servers running RHL9 and now am getting around
    to thinking about buying RHEL ES 3 entitlements (or whatever Red Hat calls
    licenses these days). So, here are my questions for you, the Red Hat
    Linux Community:

    * Should I /Upgrade/ or do a /Clean Install/ of RHEL?

    * What are the concerns regarding upgrading?

    NOTE: I am using only RHL9 RPMs with one major exception -- my Apache/PHP
    server, which I installed from source. My understanding is that in using
    only Red Hat RPMs I am going to have a happier upgrade than if I had
    hacked in all sorts of disparate software.

    * Will I have to recompile my Apache/PHP server? (i.e. is there binary
    compatibility between RHL9 and RHEL ES 3?) (This may be a moot point as I
    am going to recompile/reinstall Apache soon anyways!)

    * Does RHEL ES have up2date as a command-line client??? I can't seem to
    get a staight answer (or ANY answer, actually) from Red Hat sales. The
    marketing goo-gah on the Red Hat website goes on and on about the modules
    -- update, management, and provisioning -- but they are all GUI clients!
    That is just not gonna work for me.

    Please, if you have any experience in upgrading a system from RHL9 (or 8,
    or 7, even!) to RHEL 3, let me know how it went, what you did right, and
    what you did wrong.

    Thanks!!! 

    -- 
    Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffrey AT jhu DOT edu
                 Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/
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