sender: "Dave Laird" date: "Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:41:45AM -0700" <<<EOQ
Good morning, Karanbir...
On Monday 26 September 2005 2:28 am, Karanbir Singh wrote:
In a nutshell, unless you really understand the implications of upgrading using up2date or yum, reinstall is the best option ( or in a pinch, use the upgradeany install option after you remove all third party rpm's and packages ).
Since I asked this question originally, and my good friend Bob Hanson more or less told me the same thing, it is good to see the logical outcome of trying after I was warned. 8) Let us hope that in future releases the developers at least allow us to do upgrades, but at the present time, it does NOT seem something one would recommend.
Thank you all for advices. Too bad I didn't ask before actually going ahead with it. After all it all went beautifully in Slackware :) when doing a slapt-get --dist-upgrade from 9.1 to 10.0... I thought that I would have the same luck in CentOS... :) And in the end... I did. My problem arose from the fact that kernel* was in the up2date skip list, and thus wasn't updated. Once I got it updated too with --force, everything looks just fine.
Thanks all, Alex