Michael A. Peters wrote: > 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. I did the update by "yum -y update" and for whatever reasons did not run into any issues with glibc. I just read about the problem for the first time in this thread. Looks like it hits some people and not others perhaps. I haven't noticed any issues so far at least.