On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:32 AM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:37:38AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 09/22/11 3:08 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: >>> Am 22.09.11 11:59, schrieb John R Pierce: >>>>> On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote: >>>>>>> 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... >>>>> >>>>> no, as the 5.6 specific files are removed when 5.7 is released. you'd >>>>> have to get a clone of the vault's 5.6 directory and set that up as a >>>>> local repository instead, then point the repo file to that. >>> crap ... the 5.6 files are still there .. just change the baseurl like >>> john doe wrote and you'll get an update to 5.6 >> >> no, they aren't. >> >> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/ >> >> empty. except a readme file telling you to look in /5/ instead, which >> has the 5.7 stuff in it. > > I'm joining this thread late, so pls forgive me if I'm repeating anything > that someone else has already said. > > One relatively easy way to do what I think the OP requests is to go to > vault.centos.org, download the appropriate 5.6 ISO, burn to suitable > optical media, boot, and run an UPDATE installation. Easier still would have the OP add the 5.6 vault URL in his repo file and do a yum update off it. -Ross