Hi, The kernel will be going out today. It appears to be fine. As far as the upgrade via anaconda, I do know that it works, but I do not really know how messy it will be. That largely depends on your customizations. Personally, I always save things off and do a fresh install, and only put back what has to be put back. But that is a personal preference. RedHat has a very nice document on package changes between 4 and 5 http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/release-notes/package-changes.html Troy Winnie Lacesso wrote: > Dear All, > > Ever since RHEL released kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17 on 12 March I've been > expecting it to be available for our SL4 machines - but nothing yet. > > In looking at the Kent mirror, kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17 appears in > 40rolling/${basearch}/errata/SL/RPMS dated 13 March, but not in SL44 to 47, > or 4x (presumably 4x is just a pointer to 47) > > Is there some problem with kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17 that it's not released for > SL44 to 47? > > > Also, has anyone done an upgrade SL4 => 5 via anaconda? Is it clean > or messy, recommended or disrecommended? > > On a test machine long ago I did SL3 => SL4 upgrade via anaconda & it was > messy. Too much had changed, the cleanup from 3 to 4 left a lot of old SL3 > cruft about, so decided fresh SL4 rebuild for our SL3 servers. > Now we have more SL4 servers, so if upgrade to SL5 via anaconda is > acceptably tidy we could try - if it's tidy it will be less work than > complete rebuild & chase down cumulative config tweaks... as you do. -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI LMSS Group __________________________________________________