CentOS - May 2008 - Updates in same major version number ?

May be already asked, sorry so !

But what is the best method when updating between
4.4 and 4.5
or
4.4 and 4.6
or 
5.0 and 5.1

Is it ok to update only with 'yum update' cmd, with no risk ?

Thanks you for your support,
______________________________________________
Emmanuel Fournier - ICT

on 5-30-2008 2:54 PM Emmanuel Fournier spake the
following:
> May be already asked, sorry so !
> 
> But what is the best method when updating between
> 4.4 and 4.5
> or
> 4.4 and 4.6
> or 
> 5.0 and 5.1
> 
> Is it ok to update only with 'yum update' cmd, with no risk ?
> 
> Thanks you for your support,
> ______________________________________________
> Emmanuel Fournier - ICT
That is exactly how you update in point versions. Occasionally there might be 
issues, but they are the exception. I remember a broken package back about the 
4.2 to 4.3 upgrade. but it was resolved quickly. Usually if there is a yum or 
rpm upgrade involved, it might be better to install those packages first, but 
it might not happen again.
There is no special magic involved in a point release.


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On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 23:54 +0200, Emmanuel Fournier
wrote:
> May be already asked, sorry so !
> 
> But what is the best method when updating between
> 4.4 and 4.5
> or
> 4.4 and 4.6
> or 
> 5.0 and 5.1
> 
> Is it ok to update only with 'yum update' cmd, with no risk ?
Yes. It is the standard way endorsed by the maintainers. They only
recommend against upgrades to new releases (e.g. 4.x->5.x).

I've gone from 4.2 (IIRC)->4.3->4.4...4.6 with almost no problems. The
only one requiring extra work was when the sqlite (IIRC) got updated.

Also keep in mind if you mix repositories, use priorities and/or include
and exclude commands in the repo files.
> 
> Thanks you for your support,
> <snip sig stuff>
HTH
-- 
Bill