how to upgrade with yum from SL 7.2 DVD

[Tom H]

The upgrade procedure that I posted was from 7 to later 7 not 6 to 7.

Re: how to upgrade with yum from SL 7.2 DVD

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Yasha Karant  wrote:
>
> Would someone please remind me how to do the following.
>
> The current SL 7.2 DVD does not have an upgrade in place choice (only from a
> SL 7.x system; EL does not support upgrade between different major
> releases). I recall that someone explained that one can treat the DVD as an
> upgrade repository, point yum or some other utility (possibly a GUI) to the
> (mounted?) DVD, and then an ungrade in place without considering the process
> a new install (e.g., requesting time zone, etc.) will automagically happen.

This should do it (untested):

Mount DVD.

# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/dvd.repo <