[Fwd: [CentOS] 4.92 beta update to centos5 proper words of caution]

Fri Apr 13 01:52:12 UTC 2007
Peter Gross <pag at nanosec.com>

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.