The following has be reported by IBM LTC: Not all RPMs are the same between RHEL3 U1 upgrade and U2 Hardware Environment: z800 Software Environment: RHEL3 U1 upgraded to U2 via RHN Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL3 U1 2. Register with RHN 3. Run up2date -u to upgrade U1 from channel 4. rpm -qa > U1_upgrade 5. sort U1_upgrade 6. Install RHEL3 U2 on same image 7. Register with RHN 8. Run up2date -u to pull errata from channel 9. rpm -qa > U2_RPMS 10. sort U2_RPMS 11. diff U1_upgrade U2_RPMS Actual Results: 113c113 < gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-4 --- > gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-6 159a160 > jpackage-utils-1.5.33-1jpp_4rh 171d171 < kernel-2.4.21-9.EL 178a179 > laus-0.1-56RHEL3 291a293 > pam_passwdqc-0.7.5-1 391c393 < sendmail-8.12.10-1 --- > sendmail-8.12.11-3 415a418 > tclx-8.3-92 Expected Results: Packages should all be at same level. Additional Information: Main concern is with gnome-panel and sendmail. Levels should be same.
Opening up Jay's reply for Bill at IBM to see: gnome-panel appears to be one of the "extra" packages which needs to be pushed. jpackage-utils I suspect didn't get pulled in with the U1 install + update, as there was nothing which required it, but the package is indeed available in the RHEA-2004:146 errata. kernel is nothing more than you have more than one kernel installed on your system, so it's showing up in the 'rpm -qa' output. laus is a brand new package, so that's why it's not getting pulled in for a U1 install. pam_passwdqc is a package which hasn't been pushed yet, but was included in U2, so we'll get that fixed up today. sendmail got pulled from the site as a result of a bug, so we'll be pushing out a new one shortly. tclx is in the same category as pam_passwdqc.
Current differences between the channels look like this to me: Changes from 3AS-s390 -> 3AS-s390x (rhel-s390-as-3 -> rhel-s390x-as-3): MAKEDEV 3.3.8-1 3.3.12-1 comps 3AS-0.20040506 3AS-0.20040505 gsl 1.1.1-5 ltrace 0.3.29-1 redhat-release 3AS-10.2 3AS-11.2 rpmdb-redhat 3-0.20040506 3-0.20040505 There have been some additional rpm package pushes after U2 release as well as some further security updates. I'll close this report now, please re-open if new problems come up. greetings, Florian La Roche