How to tell the package differences between Beta and GA versions of RHELx.x

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

  • How can the differences between RHEL Beta and RHEL GA packages be identified?

Resolution

You can check if your system has been installed from Beta software by checking /etc/redhat-release. For example:

$ cat etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9 Beta (Tikanga)

Indicates that this system is installed from Beta software.

For individual packages, you can search on the Customer Portal to see if the package exists. For example, kernel-2.6.18-308.el5 can be found, so we can assume it is a GA package. However, kernel-2.6.18-339.el5 cannot, so we assume this is from a Beta release (or some other source).

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