RHEA-2018:3395 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated redhat-upgrade-tool package that adds one enhancement is now available for the Extras channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Red Hat Upgrade Tool is used for performing an in-place upgrade of the current system to the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It determines what packages are needed for the upgrade and gathers them from the given sources. It also fetches and sets up the boot images needed to run the upgrade and sets up the system to perform the upgrade on the next system boot. Running the Red Hat Upgrade Tool requires running the Preupgrade Assistant as a prerequisite.

The redhat-upgrade-tool package has been upgraded to version 0.8.0, which provides the following major enhancement:

• The Red Hat Upgrade Tool now provides the rollback capability by using LVM snapshots for systems that meet conditions specified in the Knowledgebase Solution available at https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3534561. (BZ#1625999)

Users of redhat-upgrade-tool are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3534561