Re: [vserver] Upgrade CentOS 5.3 host to 5.4

Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:17:44PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:34 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>>> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 16:20 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>>>>> Anyone running CentOS as their host distribution tried a "yum update"
>>>>> that would include the upgrade to CentOS 5.4?
>
>>>>> If what kind of results did you get and did you have any problems?
>
>>>>> TIA,
>>>>> Rod
>>>> I did quite a while ago and I don't remember the details. I think I had
>>>> to back-level all the util-vserver packages but I believe that is from
>>>> the dhozac repository and had nothing to do with the 5.4 upgrade.
>
>>> Thanks John.
>
>>> I have Daniel's repo enabled by default so the new util-vserver*
>>> packages show up plus a new yum.
>
>>> The last time I upgraded (5.2 to 5.3) I got caught by the old yum. I've
>>> excluded it from the regular repos so should be safe now.
>
>>> \\||/
>>> Rod
>> The newer util-vserver packages may give you grief depending on your
>> kernel. We are still running 2.6.28.7-vs2.3.0.36.7 and our vservers
>> will not start if we use the latest util-vserver packages.

Well I'm running kernel 2.6.22.19-vs2.3.0.34.1 and
util-vserver-*-0.30.216-1.pre2793.el5.centos. There is no kernel update
  available but there is a util-vserver.*-0.30.216-1.pre2855.el5

So now I'm a little concerned about doing an update and should I do some
hoop-jumping to get a later kernel?

Rod

-- 
> interesting, what does 'latest util-vserver' mean for you?
> and do you have any error messages produced by them?
> 
> TIA,
> Herbert
> 
>> We had to downgrade - John