On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> You don't need to change anything. 'yum update' will update things, >> within a given major release (eg 4.x or 5.x). It will happen >> automagically. Going from 4.x to 5.x requires using the installer (eg >> the ISOs and a reboot with the installer CD/DVD). I don't know if it is >> possible (or advisable) to do a major release update with yum. > > Maybe possible, but usually/always strongly discouraged, by upstream > and the CentOS team, to upgrade from one major release to another. > Best to BACKUP and install fresh. I agree. I was with Redhat starting with 6, and left after Fedora 9 got too restrictive with things. I have done upgrades, and it wasn't pretty, between major releases. Going from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 is most worthy of doing a backup, no matter what. > The caution about first updating glibc (?) is important. I recall from > the update to 5.2, there is a difference, between "yum upgrade" and > "yum update". I believe "yum upgrade" is a better way to go from 5.2 > to 5.3. *BACKUP*, read the Release Notes and then you are ready to > roll. Probably the standard CentOS Repos that you have from the > original install will do it. OK, sounds good. Thanks, everyone! ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************