From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com> > Is there a way to update a CentOS 5.4 server to 5.6 (but not 5.7)? > "yum update" takes me all the way up to 5.7. First, this is normal; yum update will always take you to the most recent 5.x Second, you will miss important security/bug fixes by staying at 5.6! If you want to take the risk anyway, the following (untested) might work: Modify your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo try to replace the baseurl's $releasever with 5.6... JD