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Tim Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Tim Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:12:19 +0100
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Yes and no.
> It will work for most everything, except for when there is release
> specific security updates.
> The biggest thing I see is that when we changed the keys that we sign
> rpm's with, we updated yum-conf as well as sl-release.  That was
> specific for each release.
> But if I am thinking correctly that might still work.  Because the
> yum-conf and sl-release that you have in 4.3, is a lower version and
> release number than the ones in SL 4.7 and 4.8.  So they should just
> ignore those.
> So ... maybe it will work.  But I'm just warning you that you should
> check on those release specific updates on a machine or two before
> implementing it to your whole set of machines.
> 
> Troy

Thanks, I think this should work for us.

Regards

Tim

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