[CentOS-devel] CentOS/RHEL 5.3

Charlie Brady charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au
Wed Jan 21 14:15:37 UTC 2009


On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Alain PORTAL wrote:

> Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009, Les Mikesell a écrit :
>> 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.


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