Bug 80282

Summary:	up2date can't upgrade to newer version of redhat, making remote upgrades impossible
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <taherh24>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	gafton, mihai.ibanescu
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Description Need Real Name 2002-12-24 02:08:19 UTC

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Description of problem:
Given the frequent release schedule of RedHat distributions, and given the new
policy that a given distribution will be supported for only 12 months after
release, it seems essential that up2date provide a convenient mechanism for
upgrading to newer versions of RedHat (e.g., 7.3->8.0).

This of biggest concern for those needing to remotely upgrade servers running
RedHat, when physical access to the box/console isn't possible.  It appears
there may be ways of shoehorning Kickstart to do the trick, but remote use of
Kickstart is not well documented and would be fragile.

There are many postings on Usenet of people asking how to remotely upgrade
RedHat, but there are never replies, so I imagine it is either not possible, or
not possible without considerable effort:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remote+upgrade+group:linux.redhat.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=7cv4ul%24f54%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com&rnum=2
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remote+upgrade+group:linux.redhat.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=003101c115f9%2427d64b80%24655a010a%40admin02&rnum=1
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remote+upgrade+group:linux.redhat.*&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=5812530b.0210081629.6a84559%40posting.google.com&rnum=14
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=remote+upgrade+group:linux.redhat.*&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=aq58um%24ghv%241%40rex.ip-plus.net&rnum=12

Some kind of easy to use remote distribution upgrade mechanism (preferably via
up2date) would be of enormous utility to "small-shop" server administrators.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  N/A

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Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-01-15 05:25:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65064 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:31 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.