centos-announce-request at centos.org wrote: > +++++++++++++++++++++++ > Upgrading from CentOS-5.3 ( or CentOS-5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2 ): > > If you are already running CentOS-5.3 or an older CentOS-5 distro, all > you need to do is update your machine via yum by running : > > 'yum update' > This seems to conflict with the release notes (http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4) which recommend this procedure: yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* python\* yum clean all yum update shutdown -r now -- Bowie