--- Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Mike Stankovic wrote:
I recently upgraded several machines from 4.2 to
4.3
and its best to start with yum centos-yumconf
thats understandable, since it would bring in the new distributed mirrorlist funcationality.
centos-release then go on to rpm* glibc etc etc I
had
why ?? rpm glibc etc update fine in the yum/rpm transactionset...
a custom shell script that downloaded the ones i needed for the first run.
again, why ? yum will handle downloads and install order ( which can be significant ) for you.... why are you downloading using custom scripts ?
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.
errr... you only need to deal with them, if it breaks something - if you have configured something or changed functionality of a pkg, you would _want_ this rpmsave / rpmnew situation to come up.
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.
again, this sounds very very extreme. CentOS is not the sort of system you need to re-install every few months - on the other hand, its the sort of system you install once and let it run for years. the yum update path works fine, just stay in sync, update often ( or as often as policy permits )
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That is from the bad-old-fedora days when connecting to remote servers over inconsistent connections was the order of the day.
Kudos for CentOS which rids me of this menace.
Still 4.0 -> 4.3 is a big upgrade and selinux/yum/apt have all changed.
On most of my systems I make changes to the default config so perhaps my case is unique.
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