Only going to 4.7 because the required app is not certified for 4.8 (In the RHEL world which is what we are basing this on). 4.7 is as high as they will go. I know I will be doing this again in a month's time when they have 4.8 certified...
I just do as I am told...To an extent...
Thanks,
John

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:

>
>
>
> Hello all,
> For (system) certification purposes, we have to upgrade our 4.4 machines to
> 4.7.
> In the past I usually have just reinstalled machines to save the (perceived)
> headaches of upgrading. That is not an option in this case.
> Are there any pitfalls to watch out for when upgrading? Is it even possible
> to go up 3 revisions?
> Thanks,
> John

Why to 4.7? The current point release for CentOS 4 is 4.8.  Going from
4.4 to 4.8 is trivial ('yum update' then 'shutdown -r now').

>

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