I have older systems out there that work fine, just for what ever reason would be great to upgrade from a C5 -> C7 (due to no longer supported) or C6 > C7 (for updated packages). Sounds like the upgrade tool is not quite an option... I was thinking... What would be wrong with any "easy" script that did the following: 1) Removed all packages with the --justdb option. 2) Import the RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 3) install the centos-release-7.3.1611 ... rpm 4) yum -y upgrade 5) yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" (for example) and reboot of course. Does that have any chance or working and be valid? Thanks, Jerry