[CentOS] Re: Beta upgrade (could not find a decent answer yet)

Mon Apr 16 06:03:47 UTC 2007
Kay Diederichs <kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de>

Evans Mitchell schrieb:
> Greetings All from Florida.
> 
> As of tonight, Sunday April 14th, 07, I finished loading the dvd iso
> of 5 beta (or 4.92 as it is shown to be) and went archive diving to see
> what was up with the updater not finding the 4.92 files on the mirrors..
> 
> I only saw a few notes about removing a dev file and something else,
> then a comment about removing an image file, then a comment about
> not doing it in X as there is a bug.......
> 
> Has anyone find a simple way to force yum to update without looking
> at the current version?? or at least telling the system to go get
> centos 5 even thou it is 4.92??
> 
...

I installed the CentOS key, and the centos-release RPM, manually and then
yum upgrade yum* rpm*
yum upgrade
where I ran the last step in runlevel 3, due to the dbus issue.
This worked for me.
HTH,
Kay