[CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Sep 22 10:37:38 UTC 2011


On 09/22/11 3:08 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
> Am 22.09.11 11:59, schrieb John R Pierce:
>> >  On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote:
>>> >>  If you want to take the risk anyway, the following (untested) might work:
>>> >>  Modify your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
>>> >>  try to replace the baseurl's $releasever with 5.6...
>> >
>> >  no, as the 5.6 specific files are removed when 5.7 is released. you'd
>> >  have to get a clone of the vault's 5.6 directory and set that up as a
>> >  local repository instead, then point the repo file to that.
> crap ... the 5.6 files are still there .. just change the baseurl like
> john doe wrote and you'll get an update to 5.6

no, they aren't.

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/

empty.  except a readme file telling you to look in /5/ instead, which 
has the 5.7 stuff in it.





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