[CentOS] Safely updating to 4.4 via yum (chicken)

Fri Oct 13 22:51:22 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 19:55 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 10:41 -0500, techlist wrote:
> 
> > What's the method to upgrade 4.3-> 4.4 with the highest change of sucess?
> 
> 	I know this is like a month late and probably not much help but my
> server that's running CentOS started at 4.0 installed by CD but then has
> been upgraded to 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 all through yum.  No problems that I
> have found.
> 

It's not to late to say that ... and it is the way that the vast
majority of Updates go.  I updated more that 100 machines and only had 3
issues with DNS because for some reason the rndc.key and rndc.conf files
were moved to be an rpmnew file :(  ... that happened with upstream
product upgrades too.

One thing to keep in perspective when looking at the issues on the
mailing list is this ... there are more than a million CentOS machines
in the Wild ... (we estimate about 1.5 million based on updates) so the
vast majority of machines upgraded OK.
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