Jim Perrin wrote: > For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta > to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list > of instructions for how to accomplish this > > 1. Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus > update will die if you're in X. > 2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been some unconfirmed > reports that it will interfere with the updates. > 3. yum update > 4. rpm -qa release="*fc6*" # this will let you find and identify the > packages which had the release string changed from fc6 to el5. > 5. manually update these rpms to the corresponding proper versions for > centos5 proper. I'm not sure how many of these there actually are, so > follow-ups to this post are welcomed. > > If these instructions need to be modified, or are incorrect, please > reply with corrections and/or additions. > I have Beta 5 running and tried to follow the steps you outlined. I slightly modified your step 3 to 3a and 3b, where 3a would be: # yum check-update Here's what I got: > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up repositories > http://centosg.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centosj.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centosh.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centosn.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centosk.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centosr.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> > Trying other mirror. > http://centosi.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centose.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centoso.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > http://centosf.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update Any suggestions? Thanks.