[CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

[Always Learning]

On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 08:27 -0600, Dipal Bhatt wrote:

> .....  So, this is for a friend of mine, and I have
> been told that they will not currently consider updating their userland
> from 6.3 to 6.8 but only selected few packages.  The picture seems to be
> that their company runs a lot of apps on 6.3 userland and might have some
> specific dependencies, etc., but more importantly, this environment has
> been running in customers' environment for quite some time esp 1000s of
> customers, so updating system properly is not easily feasible for this
> scenario.

If everyone is running STANDARD CENTOS there should be *no* problems
updating to the latest C 6.8 version.

(1) Save one complete installation.

(2) Install it on a spare machine.

(3) Change /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 if necessary.

(4) Do a: yum update

(5) Test the applications

(6) Wait a few weeks and if still no problems, then upgrade the others.



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Regards,

Paul.
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