[CentOS] Safely updating to 4.4 via yum (chicken)

Sun Sep 24 16:41:45 UTC 2006
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

techlist wrote:
> Can someone tell the what the concensous was on the best way to do the 
> upgrade and avoid problems.  From my notes I got:
>
> yum upgrade python-sqlite
> yum upgrade sqllite
> yum upgrade yum
> yum clean all
> yum update
>
> But at least one guy said his box was still hosed with duplicates and 
> a broken bind after that.
>
> What's the method to upgrade 4.3-> 4.4 with the highest change of sucess?


That procedure should be fine.  The broken bind thing happens when 
people have the caching nameserver installed.  I always delete it if the 
machine needs to run as a nameserver.

Cheers,