[CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

[Kwan Lowe]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:37 AM, sheraz naz <sheraznaz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to upgrade a system running 4.1 to 4.2, but before I do I want to
> list out all the packages that will be updated/installed/removed. I can run
> up2date -l to get a list of updates but does that show packages that need to
> be installed and removed as well or just the updates?
>
> Second, how would I go about upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 instead of 4.8 (i.e.
> latest update).

OK, ignoring the "why??", the approach would be to get the 4.2 DVD ISO
then mount it as a package repository. Point your system to that
repository then run the update.