[CentOS] binary upgrade 5.0 to 5.1?

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 13:51:53 UTC 2007


On Dec 5, 2007 8:48 AM, Dave <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> wrote:

>     I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 box
> that i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade
> from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any
> downtime.

'yum update' will take you between minor versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2)
without any issues. The only downtime required is to reboot to the new
kernel which contains several fixes. This part you can usually do
whenever you can schedule it.


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