On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:37 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). OK, ignoring the "why??", the approach would be to get the 4.2 DVD ISO then mount it as a package repository. Point your system to that repository then run the update.