[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 17:44:36 UTC 2008
Florin Andrei wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>
>> Are you saying that simply running "yum update" on a Centos-5.1 system
>> will convert it to Centos-5.2, as and when that is released?
>
> At this very moment, if I do "yum update" on my 5.1 home server, it
> tells me that it will get upgraded to 5.2 if I hit the "Y" key.
>
> I won't do that yet, I need to be physically there to babysit it, there
> are way too many hacks and moving parts on that machine.
What I did last time around, and will probably repeat on critical machines:
yum install yum-downloadonly (if you haven't already)
yum -y --downloadonly update (can run unattended)
yum upgrade (babysit - but you don't have to wait for the download)
reboot (babysit)
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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