[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

Thu Sep 7 15:33:06 UTC 2006
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

John Summerfield wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:35 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>>
>>> Matt Hyclak wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:09:08PM +0800, John Summerfield 
>>>> enlightened us:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Matt Hyclak wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Won't this also cause problems when upgrading to the next release?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course it will. :-(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not with proper exclude= lines in your configuration it won't. 
>>>>>> After all,
>>>>>> since you made the centos-release package yourself, you can 
>>>>>> control what
>>>>>> goes in that file, so an exclude line should be trivial.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Eh?
>>>>> Doesn't Anaconda look at the release file to see what it's supposed 
>>>>> to upgrade _from_? If it doesn't recognise it, how will it know how 
>>>>> to upgrade?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have we moved away from yum into respun CDs?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, I was thinking of the upgrade many folk will want to do to CentOS 5.
>>>
>>> If folk are creating alternative release packages I wonder whether 
>>> they will create problems for themselves at that time.
>>>
>>> While Anaconda has an argument to force it to upgrade, and it would 
>>> almost certainly work upgrading CentOS4 (or even WBEL) to CentOS5, 
>>> it's not the sort of thing people should use in the ordinary course 
>>> of events.
>>>
>>
>>
>> pretty sure red hat doesn't support upgrades between major release
>> versions.
> 
> I'm next to certain it does. It supported upgrades from whenever 
> Anaconda appeard (5.x or so I think) right up to RHL 9 - even skipping 
> releases, and upgrades to newer Fedora Core work. I don't see why 
> upgrading RHEL 2.1 to 3 or 4 would not work.

I believe the first point in the El4 release notes was that upgrades are 
not supported, but i might be wrong. you should check.

it might be point number 2

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