[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:35 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:09:08PM +0800, John Summerfield enlightened us:
> > 
> >>Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>Won't this also cause problems when upgrading to the next release?
> >>>>
> >>>>Of course it will. :-(
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Not with proper exclude= lines in your configuration it won't. After all,
> >>>since you made the centos-release package yourself, you can control what
> >>>goes in that file, so an exclude line should be trivial.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Eh?
> >>Doesn't Anaconda look at the release file to see what it's supposed to 
> >>upgrade _from_? If it doesn't recognise it, how will it know how to upgrade?
> > 
> > 
> > Have we moved away from yum into respun CDs?
> > 
> 
> No, I was thinking of the upgrade many folk will want to do to CentOS 5.
> 
> If folk are creating alternative release packages I wonder whether they 
> will create problems for themselves at that time.
> 
> While Anaconda has an argument to force it to upgrade, and it would 
> almost certainly work upgrading CentOS4 (or even WBEL) to CentOS5, it's 
> not the sort of thing people should use in the ordinary course of events.
> 

pretty sure red hat doesn't support upgrades between major release
versions.

so I can't imagine it'll be supported in anything from 4 -> 5.

-sv