[CentOS] Upgrade from CentOS 5.4 to 5.6

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Mon Jul 18 15:37:20 UTC 2011


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/18/2011 9:08 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
>> centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> So, how can I get it my CentOS from 5.6 to 6.0?
>> Backup data
>> Clean install
>> Restore data.
> 
> You left out the hard part which is ensuring that 'data' does not 
> conflict with any new files from the 6.x install, which anything under 
> /etc or /var most likely will, and then making sure that the parts of 
> 'data' that you need from those conflicting files are added back in a 
> compatible way, which will generally be non-trivial.
> 
Less, are you talking about user data (meant by Brian) or about config 
data of the system?

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