Atomicorp

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

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.

scott wrote: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?

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.