Yum AND up2date, or just Yum?

[Fenice]

Hello!

I have now a system with RHEL 4 and Plesk 8 installed. I was wondering which is the best way to keep it updated. Is it enough to use ART's yum repository or you integrate it with up2date? Would this cause some conflicts?

From what I read in ART archive, with RHEL I should add yum to up2date configuration, but I saw many people using just yum with their RHEL system. I am a bit confused!

Thanks!

[scott]

It depends on if you've got a valid red hat subscription or not. Most people dont, so they use yum and the centos archives to keep their system up to date.

[Fenice]

Yes, I have one year subscription, it was included in the server. So I just use your repository with up2date, and try to exclude packages that could break Plesk.

Edit: for those with the same problem, the packages listed on SwSoft KB are

pkgSkipList='kernel*','psa-*','sendmail',' bind-chroot','caching-nameserver';

Even though I do not understand why kernel should be kept out?

[scott]

You shouldnt have to exclude any packages to integrate with PSA, although I havent had the time to test out 8.1 yet. Whenever I ran into a conflict, typically with newer MySQL/PHP packages and older versions of PSA, I've marked up the rpm's internally to keep a conflict from happening.

Those packages on your list wouldnt really break PSA one way or the other.

[Fenice]

In fact I couldnt understand why I had to add them, but I took the list from Plesk's knowledge base.

http://kb.swsoft.com/article_17_234_en.html

So basically if I had your yum repository to up2date I should be fine, or you mean I should be fine if I were using yum?

[scott]

up2date should be just fine with it. Unless you don't have a valid rhel subscription, then you'd have to pull updates/base from centos over yum.