Hello, I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 box that i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any downtime. Thanks. Dave.
On Dec 5, 2007 8:48 AM, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 boxthat i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any downtime.
'yum update' will take you between minor versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2) without any issues. The only downtime required is to reboot to the new kernel which contains several fixes. This part you can usually do whenever you can schedule it.
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I run periodic yum updates, i do them manually, and i just checked my /etc/redhat-release file, it says i'm still running centos 5-final. Aside from the yum update and of course the kernel reboot, is there anything else that needs doing? I'm running kernel 2.6.xx-15. Thanks. Dave.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:51 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] binary upgrade 5.0 to 5.1?
On Dec 5, 2007 8:48 AM, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 boxthat i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any downtime.
'yum update' will take you between minor versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2) without any issues. The only downtime required is to reboot to the new kernel which contains several fixes. This part you can usually do whenever you can schedule it.
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Dave wrote:
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I run periodic yum updates, i do them manually, and i just checked my /etc/redhat-release file, it says i'm still running centos 5-final. Aside from the yum update and of course the kernel reboot, is there anything else that needs doing? I'm running kernel 2.6.xx-15. Thanks. Dave.
Hi Dave,
This is a known bug:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2481
Try running "rpm -q centos-release" to see where you are at.
-Simon Ibsen
Simon Ibsen wrote:
This is a known bug:
No, it's not a bug. Having a bug report filed against it, doesn't already qualify it as such.
It was a deliberate decision to do it this way.
Ralph
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 08:51 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 8:48 AM, Dave dmehler26@woh.rr.com wrote:
I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 boxthat i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any downtime.
'yum update' will take you between minor versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2) without any issues. The only downtime required is to reboot to the new kernel which contains several fixes. This part you can usually do whenever you can schedule it.
And, a friendly reminder:
updatedb locate rpmnew rpmsave
to catch any changes to configs, etc. that you might need to examine.
HTH -- Bill
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