[CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Alan McKay wrote:
>> it will work when your mirror has 5.4
> 
> ahhh, OK.   What if my mirror is the same box?   Will that work too?
> I cannot see any reason from here why it would not.
> 
> I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just
> bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync

sure, that will work.