[CentOS] Upgrading from 4.4 to 4.7

Thu Jun 24 16:16:52 UTC 2010
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:16:43AM -0400, John Kennedy wrote:

> 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

I didn't think that CentOS version numbers necessarily track RHEL
version numbers.    Kernel numbers do, of course, but not the distro
or did I miss too much of the conversation?

////jerry



> 
> 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').
> >
> > >
> >
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