Patch RedHat 5 to a specific level
Hi,
I'm running Redhat 5.7 on a virtual machine. If I do a yum update, this brings me to RedHat 5.11. However the user has an application which is only certified to run up to RedHat 5.9. Is there a way to specify an update to a specific level, either from the yum command, or from the RedHat customer portal?
Joe DeBattista
System Administrator
University of California, San Francisco
joed@ucsf.edu
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You'd need to have something like Satellite so you could set up custom (child) channels to contain the targeted update-state.
As an (painful) alternative, if you have a system that's already at your desired 5.7 state, you could construct an RPM manifest from it - including each installed RPM's version, then do something specify each RPM to update to.
Your best bet, however, is to contact your software vendor to determine whether their certification of 5.9 is a hard certification (unusual) or it's simply the last version they bothered to document (usually the case - especially given that by the 5.9 timeframe, most vendors were trying to move customers off RedHat 5 in favor of RedHat 6).
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