Mike Kercher wrote:

I've done this many times. Just go to a mirror, download and install the centos-release rpm, yum and import the GPG key. Then run 'yum update'. This is a very smooth transition.

Thanks Mike. If I "crossgrade" as above from the rhel version I mentionned to centos 3.5, is it likely to want to upgrade a whole swag of stuff? Can I be selective about what actually gets updated? (without causing problems)

Cheers, Stephen.

Mike

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen M. Gava Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:44 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] rhel3 < centos3 updates

Hi all,

I've been approached by someone who has an installation of rhel ES 3 (taroon update 2) to see whether I can take over doing security and other updates for them (no current rhn subscription).

What I want to know is, with a suitable yum setup can I use a centos3 repository to apply updates to this box? If so, should I source updates from centos 3.5? Does the whole box need to become a centos3 box to do this?

They'd really like to disturb the existing box (I agree) as little as possible since it's a stable production server, and mainly just want important security related updates etc. done.

Ok, tia for any answers, Stephen. -- Stephen M. Gava smig@users.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Greg Knaddison wrote:

Of course. Yum is designed for just such purposes.

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if you want to install them. You get complete control.

Thanks for your answer Greg. In the meantime I already rtfm on yum so I worked it out ;). Seems on centos you can also use up2date??

Stephen.

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