CentOS - Jan 2009 - Upgrade to 5.3?

Hey Listee's!

I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible
to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or
can you get update RPMs?

I hope this doesn't pose to much of a stupid question.

Thanks for your help everyone.

Regards,
James ;)

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> I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is
possible
> to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or
> can you get update RPMs?
Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type "yum upgrade" and you
will
be upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.3.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
Of
>James Bensley
>Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:28 AM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3?
>
>I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is
possible
>to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or
>can you get update RPMs?
It's generally considered that upgrading minor versions (eg from 5.2 to 5.3)
is *usually* quite easy and harmless, and normally doesn't pose any
problems.

Upgrading from major versions (eg from 5.9 to 6.0) *is* possible but not
recommended. If you chose this path you should expect major shindings, lib-
and yum dependencies-mayhem and all sorts of weird things happening and/or a
botched operating system which will require a complete reinstall anyway.

It's your choice really, and depends on how brave and much fingerspitzgef?hl
you have, alternatively how much time you have on your hands. ;-)

With that said, I once chose to upgrade a Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. I
went fine finally but took me a week or so to solve all the dependicies
problems for yum. Since then I've never even considered upgrading major
versions.
-- 
/Sorin

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