Mike Stankovic wrote: > I recently upgraded several machines from 4.2 to 4.3 > and its best to start with yum centos-yumconf thats understandable, since it would bring in the new distributed mirrorlist funcationality. > centos-release then go on to rpm\* glibc etc etc I had why ?? rpm glibc etc update fine in the yum/rpm transactionset... > a custom shell script that downloaded the ones i > needed for the first run. again, why ? yum will handle downloads and install order ( which can be significant ) for you.... why are you downloading using custom scripts ? > > Make sure you install the new kernel not upgrade it > incase you have problems with the new kernel. You also > need to deal with all the rpmsave/rpmnew files. errr... you only need to deal with them, if it breaks something - if you have configured something or changed functionality of a pkg, you would _want_ this rpmsave / rpmnew situation to come up. > However if i were you, i wouuld back up my data and > reinstall 4.3 afresh from cds. There were changes ie > sqlite and so yum would complain. again, this sounds very very extreme. CentOS is not the sort of system you need to re-install every few months - on the other hand, its the sort of system you install once and let it run for years. the yum update path works fine, just stay in sync, update often ( or as often as policy permits ) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq