I do have to say that this feature is missing and would be very valuable. I opened a Red Hat support case about this. This is their response:
"Hello, Thank you for contacting Red Hat support services. We do have channels for only RHEL major versions like RHEL 3, RHEL 4 etc. but no separate channels minor versions like RHEL 5.4, RHEL 5.5, all packages come under RHEL 5 channel. So if you do a yum update that would only pull out latest package available. So there is no option available with yum to get only RHEL 5.4 updates. You have following options 1. Create a custom yum repository manually by adding RHEL 5.4 packages 2. Create a custom base channel on RHN/Satellite with RHEL 5.4 updates (packages need to be selected manually) and register the system to it. 3. For customers who want to stick with a minor release we have Extended Update Support offering. Please refer following URL. http://press.redhat.com/2008/12/18/red-hat-increases-service-levels-and-reduces-costs-for-customers-with-extended-update-support/ This is meant for mission critical customers who wants to backport latest packages to their required versions. For further details please contact our sales. Please let us know if you need any further assistance on this. Regards, " James ________________________________ From: Nick Lunt <[email protected]> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 9:06:22 AM Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Updating to specific release of redhat > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: 27 July 2010 13:59 > To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Updating to specific release of redhat > > > Hi folks > > got a box running RH5.0 which I need to update to RH5.2. > > Can this be done with yum or do I have to download RH5.2 and rpm - > > Uvh the 5.2 rpms ? > > The way I've always done it has been to download the DVD, and host it > as a > yum repo locally. Going with rpm -Uvh could be a pain if there are any > package additions or replacements, and probably to many packages to do > at > once. > > -greg Sounds like a good plan, thanks Greg. Nick . __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5316 (20100727) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
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