[Yum] Redhat EL.3 AS box downgraded to ES after yum update

[Thomas Cameron]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:14 +0000, Tom Hodder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I guess this might stray into a rpm problem area rather than yum, but I thought
> I would put it out anyway... sorry in advance.
> 
> I have a local yum respository which is currently stocked with the redhat EL
> update #6 rpms, and 100 blade servers configured to use it which are RHEL 3 ES
> and AS.
> 
> I have 4 RHEL3 Advanced server boxes. When yum ran on those, they picked up the
> kernel update. But when I rebooted those servers to use the new kernel, they
> were running as RHEL Enterprise server boxes and complaining about too much
> memory etc.
> 
> Any ideas on what went wrong there?

You changed the version of redhat-release which changed the packages
which got installed.  Or your used the packages downloaded for your ES
boxes on your AS boxes, and you got the wrong kernel and/or redhat-
release package.

Thomas