[CentOS] Upgrading from 4.4 to 5

Tue Apr 24 17:16:38 UTC 2007
Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>

israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote:
> Hi, I have one centOS 4.4 with apache and some services. I want to
> upgrade to version 5 running:
> 
> Yum -y -c /etc/yum.repos.d/base_centos upgrade 
> 
> Where the file bases_centos has:
> 
> [base]
> name=CentOS-5 - Base
> baseurl=ftp://repository.mydomain/centos/5/os/i386
> gpgcheck=0
> timeout=1800
> 
> And, repository.mydomain is a mirror of mirror.centos.org
> 
> It began to download all headers until I get this error:
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: libnewt.so.0.51 is needed by package
> crypto-utils
> Error: Missing Dependency: libnewt.so.0.51 is needed by package
> newt-perl
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Error: Package initscripts needs kernel < 2.6.12, this is not available.
> Error: Package autofs needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available.
> Error: Package kudzu needs kernel < 2.6.13, this is not available.
> Error: Package hal needs kernel < 2.6.17, this is not available.
> Error: Package newt-perl needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not available.
> Error: Package lksctp-tools needs kernel < 2.6.10, this is not
> available.
> Error: Package crypto-utils needs libnewt.so.0.51, this is not
> available.
> [root at node1 yum.repos.d]#
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

You are an extremely brave soul. If I were you and depending upon just 
how mission critical this server is, I would definitely backup web 
server, DNS/DHCP (if used) Mailserver and any other critical services 
that you've got configured on this machine and do a fresh install.

directly upgrading a workstation is one thing, but doing a server just 
seems like a Very bad idea to me.

Mark