Hi! I revived an old disk with CentoS 5.8 on it and want to update it to 5.latest (=5.11). However, it insists on getting 5.8 files. From the past I remember I would get a major release jump from 5.n to 5.m automatically. Or do I remember this wrong? I googled a bit around, but couldn't really find something similar. How do I update now? The repo file looks exactly like on machines that are up to 5.11. Should I change it manually to 5.11 or just 5 paths? Does it still understand that this is then an upgrade to a another major version? Or should I do something different to make it upgrade to 5.11? Thanks! Kai
Hi, Just run 'yum upgrade' or 'yum update'. No other action is required. You can also add -y switch to autoselect --yes Eero 2016-08-15 13:36 GMT+03:00 Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>:> Hi! > > I revived an old disk with CentoS 5.8 on it and want to update it to > 5.latest (=5.11). However, it insists on getting 5.8 files. From the past > I remember I would get a major release jump from 5.n to 5.m automatically. > Or do I remember this wrong? > I googled a bit around, but couldn't really find something similar. > > How do I update now? The repo file looks exactly like on machines that are > up to 5.11. Should I change it manually to 5.11 or just 5 paths? > Does it still understand that this is then an upgrade to a another major > version? > > Or should I do something different to make it upgrade to 5.11? > > Thanks! > > Kai > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Eero Volotinen wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:00:51 +0000:> Maybe your repodata cache was a bit old :)Yeah. I would have thought it checks the date of the file and tries to update it when it's that old. Anyway, clearing the whole yum cache was a good idea as I don't need the 5.8 rpms anymore. I just didn't think about that first, it's been long ... Thanks for the quick reply! It assured me that there was no special procedure necessary, so I thought again and remembered that. Kai