[CentOS] binary upgrade 5.0 to 5.1?

William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Wed Dec 5 23:12:31 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 08:51 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

And, a friendly reminder:

  updatedb
  locate rpmnew rpmsave

to catch any changes to configs, etc. that you might need to examine.

HTH
--
Bill




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