[CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

Thu Sep 22 14:32:35 UTC 2011
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

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.

YMMV.

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