[CentOS] yum upgrading

John R Pierce
2007-05-10T07:43:49Z

John Logsdon wrote:
> I have boxes on CentOS 4.2 that I want to move to CentOS5.
>
> Are there any problems envisaged in trying to move 4.2->4.3, 4.3->4.4
and
> 4.4->5.0, using yum upgrade and changing the repositories at each stage?
>

just do a `yum update` on your '4.2' system, and it will be
'4.4' and
then some.


as far as the 4 -> 5 conversion, I don't like doing major version
upgrades, I'd rather backup all config and data, clean install, and
redeploy on the new system.  or, better, bring up the new OS on a new
box, then migrate the apps.