CentOS - Apr 2007 - [Fwd: 4.92 beta update to centos5 proper words of caution]

Jim Perrin 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 have Beta 5 running and tried to follow the steps you outlined. I 
slightly modified your step 3 to 3a and 3b, where 3a would be:
# yum check-update

Here's what I got:
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> http://centosg.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosj.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosh.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosn.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosk.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosr.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosi.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centose.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centoso.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> http://centosf.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update
Any suggestions?

Thanks.

On 4/12/07, Peter Gross <pag at nanosec.com>
wrote:
> I have Beta 5 running and tried to follow the steps you outlined. I
> slightly modified your step 3 to 3a and 3b, where 3a would be:
> # yum check-update
>
> Here's what I got:
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Setting up repositories
> >
http://centosg.centos.org/centos/4.92/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Any suggestions?
Yep. I did leave out a step. You'll have to install the new
centos-release package manually. This should point you from 4.92 to 5.
If you look at the url in the error note above, you're trying to pull
updates from 4.92, which won't work now that the release is official.

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