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James Bensley Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:28 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3?
I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or can you get update RPMs?
It's generally considered that upgrading minor versions (eg from 5.2 to 5.3) is *usually* quite easy and harmless, and normally doesn't pose any problems.
Upgrading from major versions (eg from 5.9 to 6.0) *is* possible but not recommended. If you chose this path you should expect major shindings, lib- and yum dependencies-mayhem and all sorts of weird things happening and/or a botched operating system which will require a complete reinstall anyway.
It's your choice really, and depends on how brave and much fingerspitzgefühl you have, alternatively how much time you have on your hands. ;-)
With that said, I once chose to upgrade a Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. I went fine finally but took me a week or so to solve all the dependicies problems for yum. Since then I've never even considered upgrading major versions.