I manually installed the centos-yumcache. But what to do next to upgrade your box from 3.3 => 3.4 ? Thanks for your help. Michiel Lance Davis wrote: > For Release: January 10, 2005 > > The CentOS Team is pleased to announce the official release of CentOS > 3.4 for i386. > > This release includes all RHEL 3 updates (for U4) and errata up to > January 5th, 2005. New ISO images are available as well as an > installable DVD edition with source. In addition this release is > available via BitTorrent. > > > Downloading -- Bittorrent > ------------------------- <snip> > > Purchasing > ---------- > > isos are available to purchse from www.cheeplinux.com (UK) and should > also be available from a number of other online vendors. > > Upgrade Notes > ------------- > > Initially CentOS 3.3 systems will not be automatically upgraded to > CentOS 3.4. However in 72-96 hours from this announcment the > centos-release rpm for 3.4 will be added to the 3.3 tree and that will > force automatic upgrades when using yum. > > If you do NOT want to upgrade then exclude centos-release from updates > in your yum.conf. We will try to maintain security updates for CentOS > 3.3 for as long as there are no issues that mean they cant be used (eg > 3.4 specific dependency issue) -- but as soon as that happens we will > have to close the CentOS 3.3 tree. > > From this point forward $releasever will stay at 3. When 3.5 is > released systems will automatically get updated. To prevent this you > will need to hard code 3.4 in yum.conf in place of $releasever. > > To manually upgrade to CentOS-3.4 (now) > --------------------------------------- > > first > > rpm -ivh > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumcache-3.1-0.20050105.3.noarch.rpm > > (to avoid the header downloads) > > (Note: If you had poreviously upgraded from CentOS 3.1 then you will > already have a cento s-yumcache rpm installed and rpm will complain , in > which case use rpm -Fvh) > > rpm -Fvh > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-release-3-4.2.i386.rpm > > (to get the new releasever) > > then > > yum update > > > To automatically upgrade to CentOS 3.4 (from 72-96 hours time) > ------------------------------------------------------ > > We recommend that you install centos-yumcache before updating as it will > save all the header downloading. > > yum install centos-yumcache > yum update centos-release > yum update > > Otherwise yum will take two update cycles to perform the update, the > first will update centos-release and the second will download all the > headers and then update all the packages. > > CENTOSPLUS > ---------- > > The new CentOSplus repo is designed to allow us to provide extended > functionality to CentOS without compromising compatibility with Redhat > Enterprise Linux. Packages that will live in CentOSplus - such as > MySQL-4 - would update packages in the base distro, so it is only > recommended that you enable CentOSplus in yum.conf when you are sure > that is what you want. The difference between CentOSplus and 'extras' is > that 'extras' are additional packages that are not already installed, so > would not update existing packages beyond Rhel-3 , but provide extra > functionality. It is hoped that there will be a wide range of > CentOSplus packages provided in the future. > > RELEASE NOTES & CAVEATS > ----------------------- > > -- YUM -- > > Your yum.conf should not get overwritten by the upgrade, but the new > version may get written as yum.conf.rpmnew > > If your /etc/yum.conf file is a symlink to centos-yum.conf and you have > manually edited centos-yum.conf, your centos-yum.conf file will be > replaced by a new centos-yum.conf from the centos-yumconf rpm file in > CentOS 3.4. Your existing centos-yum.conf file will be saved as > yum.conf-SAVE. > > The following changes have been made tp the default centos-yum.conf :- > > Reference to the CentOSplus repository has been added (see below) but is > not activated. > > The download path has changed from /centos-3/$releasever to > /centos/$releasever to allow for update to CentOS-4 and later versions > without having to change the configuration file. > > If you have edited yum.conf then neither of these changes will prevent > it working but you would be advised to make them to avoid future > problems. > > -- CENTOS-RELEASE RPM -- > > In order to accomodate compatibility with Dag's and other 3rd party > repositories, the naming convention of centos-release has been changed. > The version is now 3 (rather than 3.3) and will remain fixed $releasever > used by yum) for the life of CentOS 3. The first number of the release > will now carry the designation of the edition. > > For example, CentOS 3.4 ships with centos-release-3-4.2. The version is > 3 and the release is 4.2. Compare this with the centos-release from the > prior version: centos-release-3.3-1. yum detected $releasever as 3.3. > > Dag's excellent repository of Enterprise Linux RPMS. can be found at > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ > > -- RPM -- > > Due to an upstream bug that causes RPM to fail and requires manual > elimination of the RPM database, CentOS 3.4 ships with the RPM used in > CentOS 3.3. When the upstream providor releases a patched RPM the > CentOS team will follow suit. CentOS 3.4 ships with rpm-4.2.3-10 as did > CentOS 3.3 rather than rpm-4.3.3-13 provided with rhel3 U4. > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143532) > > -- MAILMAN -- > > CentOS 3.4 now ships with mailman as released by RedHat with quarterly > Update 4 (U4). However the CentOS 3.4 verion is NOT compatible with the > version available via CentOS 3.3 Extras. Since you can't read the > Mailman upgrade documentation, we have made the upgrade notes available > on the CentOS website. Read them here http://www.centos.org/mailman > > Databases will need to be manually updated per the instructions above. > If want to avoid upgrading Mailman at this time, then temporarily > exclude mailman from updates in your yum.conf until you are happy with > the upgrade. > > No further updates to the 3.3 version of mailman will be released by the > CentOS team. > > ------------ > > To stay up to date with CentOS join the CentOS mailing list at > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Join #centos at irc.freenode.net > > Or participate in the web forums at www.centos.org > > Please add any errors or bugs you encounter to buzilla on > http://www.centos.org/bugs. > > Enjoy, > > The CentOS Team > > Lance Davis > CentOS 3 i386 Release Manager > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos