[CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors

Wed Apr 1 06:56:39 UTC 2009
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>

Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
>> Of Gilbert Sebenste
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:44 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
>>
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Florin Andrei wrote:
>>
>>> On one mirror that I tried, at least.
>>>
>>> So, is it live yet? :-)
>> Almost. Another several more hours before they all sync, and then we're
>> good to go.
> 
> Really?? Excellent, you rock guys!
> 
> 
>> BTW, how does this work? If I want to go from 5.2 to 5.3, can I just
>> type "yum upgrade"? If so, what /etc/yum.repos.d entry has to be active
>> for that?
> 
> Minor version upgrades (eg 5.2 > 5.3): yum update

Not sure it matters but I usually do

yum update yum rpm
yum clean all
yum update

I heard elsewhere that there can be problems if you do not update glibc 
before updating the rest of the OS. I heard that after two of my boxes 
were already updated the above way and they didn't experience any 
issues, so maybe it was bogus, but it certainly can't hurt to do

yum update glibc

first.

remote server, be sure to do it inside of screen.