[CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

[Ralph Angenendt]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:37 AM, sheraz naz <sheraznaz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to upgrade a system running 4.1 to 4.2, but before I do I want to
> list out all the packages that will be updated/installed/removed. I can run
> up2date -l to get a list of updates but does that show packages that need to
> be installed and removed as well or just the updates?
>
> Second, how would I go about upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 instead of 4.8 (i.e.
> latest update).

You just don't. It doesn't help to upgrade from a version which is
four and a half years old to a version which is four years old. Both
have real security issues, both had bug fixes to several of the
applications running there.

Ralph