Redhat ES3 and Centos

[ayalon]

Hi All,

When i do a yum check-update i get a lot of centos updates while i'm on redhat enterprise 3. Is this a problem and can i update safely?

When i install httpd from the repository i get this error message which scares me a bit..

Downloading Packages
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
warning: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf created as /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.rpmnew
httpd 100 % done 1/2
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/httpd/run: cpio: rename
Updated: httpd 2.0.46-56.ent.centos.1.i386


Now it updates the devel but not the normal httpd rpm.. Any solution? Can i also update the centos kernel?

Hopefully somebody can help me.

Regards

[scott]

If you're on RHEL3, you should probably pull your packages from Red Hat. You are paying for it after all!

The CentOS packages are RHEL3/RHEL4 packages, minus Red Hat's trademarks. My recommendation would be to stick with your vendors packages. CentOS works fine on a RHEL box, but if you're going to do that, Id recommend you reinstall a clean CentOS box and not mix the two.

[ayalon]

If you're on RHEL3, you should probably pull your packages from Red Hat. You are paying for it after all!

The CentOS packages are RHEL3/RHEL4 packages, minus Red Hat's trademarks. My recommendation would be to stick with your vendors packages. CentOS works fine on a RHEL box, but if you're going to do that, Id recommend you reinstall a clean CentOS box and not mix the two.

Totally correct. But on my system up2date is not standard installed. The installation is done by the provider. When i do yum install up2date it also wants to update the kernel which is not ideal i think.

Is there a better way to install up2date?

[scott]

Sounds like you're on a vserver. I'd talk to your provider, odds are they're maintaining the system packages outside of your vserver, which could cause problems for you down the road.