Changing up2date to severn channel

Joseph Phillips jphillips at amphus.com
Fri Sep 19 18:28:37 UTC 2003


I tried:

up2date --upgrade-to-release severn

But it says that it can't find this channel 'severn'.  Does anyone know
what is the name of the channel that will work for this up2date option?

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:23, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> quoting Michael Schwendt:
> 
> > Well, using up2date to perform a distribution upgrade is not a
> > supported update-path. But you can take a close look at the bottom of
> > "up2date --help" and try what you'll find there. Have fun if it breaks
> > your system into pieces.
> 
> Can someone from Red Hat clarify if the --upgrade-to-release option of up2date
> is an officially supported way to do a live upgrade from one channel to another?
> I recently noticed this option on my RH 9 box, and was under the impression I
> could use it to 'upgrade' to any channel available (with the obvious exception
> of RHEL channels for which I have no license).
> 
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