Mike Stankovic wrote:
--- Barry Brimer barry.brimer@bigfoot.com wrote:
I need to update a CentOS 4.0 system to CentOS 4.3. In my opinion, I should start out with a "yum update yum centos-yumconf" and then follow that with a "yum update". Does anyone have any other input as to what other packages might be needed to be updated with yum and centos-yumconf before the mass upgrade?
Thanks, Barry
I recently upgraded several machines from 4.2 to 4.3 and its best to start with yum centos-yumconf centos-release then go on to rpm* glibc etc etc I had a custom shell script that downloaded the ones i needed for the first run.
Make sure you install the new kernel not upgrade it incase you have problems with the new kernel. You also need to deal with all the rpmsave/rpmnew files.
However if i were you, i wouuld back up my data and reinstall 4.3 afresh from cds. There were changes ie sqlite and so yum would complain.
Hope that helps.
I haven't tried 4.0 ---> 4.3, but I have done 4.1 and 4.2 upgrades to 4.3. I haven't experienced any problems using this method:
su <root passwd> yum update (hit YES when prompted) (go out for a cup of coffee while it downloads and updates) /sbin/shutdown -r now (system wakes up as CentOS 4.3 box)
It's THAT easy. These were all rather vanilla systems without any special drivers or custom kernels that were just doing standard DNS/mail/web services and it just plain worked. The CentOS team did a great job!
Cheers,