Only going to 4.7 because the required app is not certified for 4.8 (In the RHEL world which is what we are basing this on). 4.7 is as high as they will go. I know I will be doing this again in a month's time when they have 4.8 certified... I just do as I am told...To an extent... Thanks, John On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > For (system) certification purposes, we have to upgrade our 4.4 machines > to > > 4.7. > > In the past I usually have just reinstalled machines to save the > (perceived) > > headaches of upgrading. That is not an option in this case. > > Are there any pitfalls to watch out for when upgrading? Is it even > possible > > to go up 3 revisions? > > Thanks, > > John > > Why to 4.7? The current point release for CentOS 4 is 4.8. Going from > 4.4 to 4.8 is trivial ('yum update' then 'shutdown -r now'). > > > > > -- > Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! > Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database > heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Did you know that it costs forty thousand dollars a year to house each prisoner?...I don't think we should give free room and board to criminals. I think they should have to run twelve hours a day on a treadmill and generate electricity. And if they don't want to run, they can rest in the chair that's hooked up to the generator. -George Carlin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100624/b5a06c59/attachment-0005.html>