CentOS - Apr 2007 - 4.92 beta update to centos5 proper words of caution

For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta
to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list
of instructions for how to accomplish this

1. Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus
update will die if you're in X.
2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been some unconfirmed
reports that it will interfere with the updates.
3. yum update
4. rpm -qa release="*fc6*" # this will let you find and identify the
packages which had the release string changed from fc6 to el5.
5. manually update these rpms to the corresponding proper versions for
centos5 proper.  I'm not sure how many of these there actually are, so
follow-ups to this post are welcomed.

If these instructions need to be modified, or are incorrect, please
reply with corrections and/or additions.

-- 
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

On 4/12/07, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>
wrote:
> For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta
> to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list
> of instructions for how to accomplish this
>
> 1. Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus
> update will die if you're in X.
> 2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been some unconfirmed
> reports that it will interfere with the updates.
> 3. yum update
> 4. rpm -qa release="*fc6*" # this will let you find and identify
the
> packages which had the release string changed from fc6 to el5.
> 5. manually update these rpms to the corresponding proper versions for
> centos5 proper.  I'm not sure how many of these there actually are, so
> follow-ups to this post are welcomed.
>
> If these instructions need to be modified, or are incorrect, please
> reply with corrections and/or additions.
I presume these notes apply to the *yum* updates, but not to the
upgrade through booting from CD.  Is this correct?

Akemi

I did this:

1. Update kernel-PAE and kernel-xen manually (download and install rpm)
2. Update yum* manually
3. Update centos-release manually
4. Update dbus, dbus-devel and dbus-x11 manually
5. yum update xorg*
6. Rename /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.rpmnew to CentOS-Base.repo
7. yum update xorg*
8. yum update *python*
9. yum update *virt* *kernel*
10. yum update

I didn't reboot after step 9, and there was no problem till now.