Mike Stankovic wrote:
> I recently upgraded several machines from 4.2 to 4.3
> and its best to start with yum centos-yumconf
thats understandable, since it would bring in the new distributed
mirrorlist funcationality.
> centos-release then go on to rpm\* glibc etc etc I had
why ?? rpm glibc etc update fine in the yum/rpm transactionset...
> a custom shell script that downloaded the ones i
> needed for the first run.
again, why ? yum will handle downloads and install order ( which can be
significant ) for you.... why are you downloading using custom scripts ?
>
> Make sure you install the new kernel not upgrade it
> incase you have problems with the new kernel. You also
> need to deal with all the rpmsave/rpmnew files.
errr... you only need to deal with them, if it breaks something - if you
have configured something or changed functionality of a pkg, you would
_want_ this rpmsave / rpmnew situation to come up.
> However if i were you, i wouuld back up my data and
> reinstall 4.3 afresh from cds. There were changes ie
> sqlite and so yum would complain.
again, this sounds very very extreme. CentOS is not the sort of system
you need to re-install every few months - on the other hand, its the
sort of system you install once and let it run for years. the yum update
path works fine, just stay in sync, update often ( or as often as policy
permits )
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