[CentOS] CentOS 5 beta upgrade path

Sun Apr 1 22:08:10 UTC 2007
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at bppiac.hu>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 07:52 -0500, eric at austinconventioncenter.com
> wrote:
>> How hard would it be to upgrade from CentOs 5 beta to the released version?
>> Would it be as simple as a yum upgrade or would I have to upgrade via
>> booting from cd/dvd/pxe ?
>>
>> Pardon my ignorance if this has been asked already
>>
>> -Eric
> 
> It is looking now like an upgrade is going to be fairly easy ... but
> will require you to remove at least one package (linuxwacom-devel) by
> hand.  This package was removed upstream.
> 
> Also take care of at least one group of packages manually
> (Image-Magick*) as they were labeled as .fc6 in the Beta and are .el5 in
> the release (aslo done upstream).
> 
> There may be more as we test ... but it seems that it will be fairly
> easy to upgrade the beta to Final.

it'd be _very_ useful to document these in the release and/or update notes!

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"