Hey Listee's!
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?
I hope this doesn't pose to much of a stupid question.
Thanks for your help everyone.
Regards, James ;)
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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?
Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type "yum upgrade" and you will be upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.3.
Great!
Thanks for that I thought it was probably possible!
Thanks Barry, that's greatly appreciated!
2009/1/27 Barry Brimer lists@brimer.org:
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?
Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type "yum upgrade" and you will be upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.3. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 00:33 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
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?
Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type "yum upgrade" and you will be upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.3.
If your configuration is set normally, "yum update" will do it. Just like a normal set of updates. Having said that, ...
IIRC there was a recent thread, which I can't find at the moment, that discussed some updates to glib (I though it was glibc but Ralph(?) corrected me in another thread) that might cause a problem in later stages of the update process. I believe the tentative conclusion was that some notification about it would be needed.
I'm guessing it might be along the lines of the sqlite update needed in the dark past. If so, that would be a two-step: update the lib and then do the normal update. But keep in mind that's all predicated on vague memory of the thread, incomplete information and blissful ignorance.
Regardless, I'm remaining alert in case my memory and understanding are correct.
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Barry Brimer wrote:
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?
Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type "yum upgrade" and you will be upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.3.
Please READ the release notes first :)
yum update glibc yum update
And if you're updating *remotely* over an ssh login, consider using a screen session for the update in case the ssh link fails during the update process.
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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.
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