[ovirt-users] Upgrade order 3.4.2 -> 3.5.x

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/31/2014 04:01 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Daniel Helgenberger
> <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de <mailto:daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>> wrote:
>
>
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>     > Afterwards I clean hypervisor hosts one by one and clean/reinstall it into
>     > the cluster?
>     This what I have done; remember you need to add the 3.5 repos otherwise
>     VDSM will be (re)installed from the latest 3.4 repos and not upgraded to
>     the '3.5' version. Also, this process went like a charm without any
>     issues (let alone loosing guest)
>      >
>
>
> One question related to host reinstall vs "yum update vdsm*" comes into
> my mind now..
>
> On one of my all-in-one environments, which started from 3.0 days and
> now is at 3.5 through progressive updates, I recently noticed some
> *.rpmnew packages related to both engine and vdsm components.
> I always updated the host part through "yum update" on this all-in-one
> server.
> This situation forced me to compare running .conf file vs .rpmnew ones
> and to clean then the situation.
>
> The question is: in general when you run "reinstall host" from engine
> gui, does this process run a "yum update" and so you should care about
> possible change in .conf files format, or does it go through
> uninstall/install?

yum update