When I say non-rpm, I mean source packages I compiled such as zoneminder. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of R P Herrold > Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 7:36 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0 > > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > > I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That > doesn't work > > either. > > A low skill user was never able to go from 2.1 to 3, nor 3 to > 4, nor 4 to 5, and an a minimally skilled will not be able to > go from 5 to 6. This is the policy of the upstream, and a > sensible one, because of invasive changes each major release > represents. Functionally, each major is a new product. > > That said, the CentOS wiki has an UNSUPPORTED method for > media based 'upgradeany' transitions of the type you mention. > It IS UNSUPPORTED, because it can break systems. For that > reason, I specifically added warnings to that article, to > take and test backups before trying that path > > > Guess I'm stuck with 5.6 as I an not about to install a new version > > and have to rebuild all non-rpm packages from scratch. This > is worse than Microsoft!! > > Much worse -- you could not steal binaries and license keys > from CentOS because we give them away for free > > CentOS ships no non-RPM packaged packages -- look to whoever > put those packages on your box without using the packaging > system if you feel the need to blame someone > > -- Russ herrold > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos