Charlie Brady wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Alain PORTAL wrote: > >> Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009, Les Mikesell a �crit : >>> Alain PORTAL wrote: >>>> >>>> Are you really sure about that? >>> >>> It has worked for every CentOS X.Y -> X.Y+1 so far (at least since 3.0 >>> which was the first I tried). They do tend to be big updates, though. >>> Don't confuse it with an X.Y -> X+1.0 upgrade which can have much bigger >>> changes. >> >> No confusion for me. >> I understood that upgrading X.Y -> X+1.0 is a bad idea > > I don't think it is a bad idea. I just think that sometimes there are > some problems, or RedHat is not prepared to say that it will work. > CentOS 3 -> 4 worked for me, using 'upgradeany' option to anaconda. The biggest problem is when the upgrade is from wu-ftpd and wu-imap to vsftpd and cyrus-imapd or such. There's no good way to automate such a process. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)