[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

[Thomas Dukes]

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Giovanni Tirloni
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 6:54 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0


On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Thomas Dukes <tdukes at sc.rr.com> wrote:


Help!

Just ran the installation DVD but there is no option to 'upgrade'. Looked at
the RHEL docs,
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati
<http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installat
i%0Aon_Guide/ch-guimode-x86.html#id4594292> 
on_Guide/ch-guimode-x86.html#id4594292 referenced off the CentOS Release
notes but the CentOS installation doesn't offer the 'upgrade'.

I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't work
either.

Guess I'm stuck with 5.6 as I an not about to install a new version and have
to rebuild all non-rpm packages from scratch. This is worse than Microsoft!!



Red Hat does not support upgrades between major versions (doesn't
necessarily mean it's not possible)
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati
on_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html
http://linsec.ca/blog/2011/02/23/my-adventure-upgrading-rhel5-to-rhel6/ 
 
Since when?? I started with slackware 1.0 on a pentinum 1 system from
VaResearch back in the mid 90's, change to Redat 2.0, then Fedora, then to
Whitebox, then CentOS.. Never had a problem upgrading on an rpm based
system.

Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux have a very different release strategies
and version numbers. You can read more about the support lifecycle here:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

-- 
Giovanni Tirloni


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