[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Mon Jul 25 13:24:03 UTC 2011


On Sat, July 23, 2011 19:36, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote:
>
>> I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't
>> work either.
>
> CentOS ships no non-RPM packaged packages -- look to whoever
> put those packages on your box without using the packaging
> system if you feel the need to blame someone
>

If that person just happens to be oneself then I suggest that you
use "checkinstall" in the future so avoid the pain of dealing with
custom installed software outside the rpm/yum package manager


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