The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
The following procedures describe how to upgrade an Oracle Linux 6 system to Oracle Linux 6 Update 9 on a system where the Oracle-supported OFED packages for UEK R4 are already present.
The following procedure describes how to use ULN to perform an upgrade.
This procedure assumes that you have registered the system with ULN. See Oracle® Linux: Unbreakable Linux Network User's Guide for Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 7.
Subscribe the system to the
ol6_x86_64_UEKR4_OFED,ol6_x86_64_UEKR4, andol6_x86_64_latestchannels on ULN. By default, theol6_x86_64_UEKR4andol6_x86_64_latestchannels are enabled when you register an Oracle Linux 6 system with ULN.Edit the
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conffile and add the following lines to the end of the file:[ol7_x86_64_UEKR4_OFED] priority=20
Install the
yum-plugin-prioritiespackage from theol7_x86_64_latestchannel:#
yum install yum-plugin-prioritiesApply Oracle Linux 6 Update 9 to the system:
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yum updateAny Oracle-supported OFED packages for UEK R4 that were already present are updated from the
ol6_x86_64_UEKR4_OFEDchannel. If you do not have any of the OFED packages installed, you can proceed to install the packages as described in the installation instructions provided in the Release Notes for the most current version of UEK R4 at Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Documentation.For example, if installing for UEK R4u5, refer to Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel: Release Notes for Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 Update 5.
The following procedure describes how to perform an upgrade by using the Oracle Linux yum server.
If you updated the server from Oracle Linux 5 or the initial release of Oracle Linux 6, ensure that your system is up to date and that you have transitioned to use the modular yum repository configuration by installing the
oraclelinux-release-el6package and running the/usr/bin/ol_yum_configure.shscript.#
yum install oraclelinux-release-el6#/usr/bin/ol_yum_configure.shEnable the
ol6_latest,ol6_UEKR4andol6_UEKR4_OFEDrepositories. For example, run:#
yum-config-manager --enable ol6_latest ol6_UEKR4 ol6_UEKR4_OFEDInstall the
yum-plugin-prioritiespackage from theol6_latestrepository:#
yum install yum-plugin-prioritiesTo apply Oracle Linux 6.9 to the system:
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yum updateAny Oracle-supported OFED packages for UEK R4 that were already present are updated from the
ol6_UEKR4_OFEDrepository on the Oracle Linux yum server. If you do not have any of the OFED packages installed, you can proceed to install the packages as described in the installation instructions that are provided in the release notes for the most current version of UEK R4 at https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/uek/.For example, if you are installing UEK R4U7, see the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 Update 7 Release Notes.