>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@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 fingerspitzgefühl 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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