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 )