Jim Perrin wrote:
For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list of instructions for how to accomplish this
- Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus
update will die if you're in X. 2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been some unconfirmed reports that it will interfere with the updates. 3. yum update 4. rpm -qa release="*fc6*" # this will let you find and identify the packages which had the release string changed from fc6 to el5. 5. manually update these rpms to the corresponding proper versions for centos5 proper. I'm not sure how many of these there actually are, so follow-ups to this post are welcomed.
If these instructions need to be modified, or are incorrect, please reply with corrections and/or additions.
I have Beta 5 running and tried to follow the steps you outlined. I slightly modified your step 3 to 3a and 3b, where 3a would be: # yum check-update
Here's what I got:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories http://centosg.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centosj.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centosh.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centosn.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centosk.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centosr.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror. http://centosi.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centose.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centoso.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. http://centosf.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
On 4/12/07, Peter Gross pag@nanosec.com wrote:
I have Beta 5 running and tried to follow the steps you outlined. I slightly modified your step 3 to 3a and 3b, where 3a would be: # yum check-update
Here's what I got:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories http://centosg.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Any suggestions?
Yep. I did leave out a step. You'll have to install the new centos-release package manually. This should point you from 4.92 to 5. If you look at the url in the error note above, you're trying to pull updates from 4.92, which won't work now that the release is official.
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 4/12/07, Peter Gross pag@nanosec.com wrote:
I have Beta 5 running and tried to follow the steps you outlined. I slightly modified your step 3 to 3a and 3b, where 3a would be: # yum check-update
Here's what I got:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories
http://centosg.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Any suggestions?
Yep. I did leave out a step. You'll have to install the new centos-release package manually. This should point you from 4.92 to 5. If you look at the url in the error note above, you're trying to pull updates from 4.92, which won't work now that the release is official.
Ok... after finding this thread I was curious, so I followed a few of the steps - skipped the part about removing all packages marked fc6 although I did id them and decided there were just too damn many to bother removing them - installed the "el" centos-release packages and then dropped out to a tty screen.
ran "yum -y update" and it went flawlessly. Upgraded my CentOS 5Beta2 workstation with no even a hiccup.
SWEET!
On 4/14/07, Mark Weaver mdw1982@mdw1982.com wrote:
Ok... after finding this thread I was curious, so I followed a few of the steps - skipped the part about removing all packages marked fc6 although I did id them and decided there were just too damn many to bother removing them - installed the "el" centos-release packages and then dropped out to a tty screen.
ran "yum -y update" and it went flawlessly. Upgraded my CentOS 5Beta2 workstation with no even a hiccup.
Good to know, and thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I wrote the steps down really before I looked to see just how many .fc6 packages there were. Apparently upstream left.... what was the term from the other thread... a cubic buttload of them in there. All in all I'm glad the advice worked for you, and thanks for following up to confirm that the directions do in fact mostly work.
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