[CentOS] Centos 5.1 distro: How to upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 with yum??

[Jancio Wodnik]

Robinson Tiemuqinke pisze:
> Hi,
>
>  Redhat announced RHEL 5.1 on Nov 07, so hopefully
> CentOS 5.1 will be ready shortly. But I get kind of
> nervous of the arrival of 5.1.
>
>  My problem is: I have hundreds Centos 5.0 boxes just
> finished installation and I will continue to install
> and upgrade hundreds more in next few months. With the
> arrival of Centos 5.1, I don't like to reinstall them
> anymore but continuous upgrade instead -- if this is
> possible? 
>
>  Currently I download the Centos 5.0 upgrade packages
> from mirror sites on Internet
> (.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64}/...), with
> the arrival of Centos 5.1, are the existing Centos 5.0
> update packages will be removed in honor of Centos 5.1
> updates? or it will stay? And how about the Centos
> 5.1's default packages in distro?   
>
>  Give an example here:
>
>  2.6.18-8.1.15 version kernel is the most recently
> updated kernel for Centos 5.0 distro, if the Centos
> 5.1 distro comes with 2.6.18-8.1.10000 kernel and in
> the first few weeks there are no kernel updates for
> 5.1, then how can I upgrade my kernel to
> 2.6.18-8.1.10000 naturally -- will the
> 2.6.18-8.1.10000 shows in the same update sources
> directories(.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64/...)?
>
>  A similar question is: are the update diretories
> contains only updates for 5.1 distro, or both 5.0 and
> 5.1?
>
>  Any clarifications are greatly appreciated.
>   
It's simply. All things from 5.0 to 5.1 will be done automatically via 
yum (as standard update) or in rare situation can be possibly depedency 
problem (when mixing different repo ?).

So don't worry. if you are really affraid - update only one box and test 
... test ... then update the rest.

I must say. In Centos 4 world all updates from 1 to 2 to 3 ... to 5 were 
go in smooth way.

Regards,

Irens

> --Robinson
>
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