Re: Upgrading from 4.4 to 4.7

[Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 
> Hello all,
> For (system) certification purposes, we have to upgrade our 4.4 machines to
> 4.7.
> In the past I usually have just reinstalled machines to save the (perceived)
> headaches of upgrading. That is not an option in this case.
> Are there any pitfalls to watch out for when upgrading? Is it even possible
> to go up 3 revisions?
> Thanks,
> John

Why to 4.7? The current point release for CentOS 4 is 4.8.  Going from
4.4 to 4.8 is trivial ('yum update' then 'shutdown -r now').

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