Re: [CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

2011-09-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/22/11 3:08 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: > Am 22.09.11 11:59, schrieb John R Pierce: >> > On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote: >>> >> If you want to take the risk anyway, the following (untested) might >>> >> work: >>> >> Modify your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo >>> >> try to replac

Re: [CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

2011-09-22 Thread Sebastian Schubert
Am 22.09.11 11:59, schrieb John R Pierce: > On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote: >> If you want to take the risk anyway, the following (untested) might work: >> Modify your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo >> try to replace the baseurl's $releasever with 5.6... > > no, as the 5.6 specific files ar

Re: [CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

2011-09-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote: > If you want to take the risk anyway, the following (untested) might work: > Modify your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo > try to replace the baseurl's $releasever with 5.6... no, as the 5.6 specific files are removed when 5.7 is released. you'd have to get

Re: [CentOS] w3pw install

2011-09-22 Thread John Doe
From: Tim Dunphy > I'm attempting to install the w3pw password wallet on centos 5.6 > http://w3pw.sourceforge.net/ > The interface works well enough, but for the life of me I can't find the > default password for setup or the file in which this is set. Does anyone > happen > to know? >From t

Re: [CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

2011-09-22 Thread John Doe
From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin > Is there a way to update a CentOS 5.4 server to 5.6 (but not 5.7)? > "yum update" takes me all the way up to 5.7. First, this is normal; yum update will always take you to the most recent 5.x Second, you will miss important security/bug fixes by staying at 5.6! If you

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Bad update man-1.6d-2.el5.i386?

2011-09-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:20 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Is this a metadata issue with my cache or is that update bad? # rpm -Fv /var/cache/yum/base/packages/man-1.6d-2.el5.i386.rpm Preparing packages for installation... man-1.6d-2.el5 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/sha

Re: [CentOS] Wiki CR Repo Link Defective

2011-09-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/22/11 12:09 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > The neeed to know the solution is less clear than the need > just to capture into either package' centos-release' or > centor-release-cr, if it exists, the fact that there is an > issue, and optionally a link to the pipermail thread URL, or a > but of a re

Re: [CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

2011-09-22 Thread Trey Dockendorf
I think a local mirror is really your best option. Or possibly two repos. One for testing, which you sync when you want to test updates and point all test systems at it. Then a production repo for production systems that pulls from the frozen test repo. One addition to your idea would be to use

[CentOS] Bad update man-1.6d-2.el5.i386?

2011-09-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, I noticed the man update for my CentOS-5 kept popping up a couple of times, so instead of using yum-updatesd from the desktop I tried doing a yum update by hand. The update fails, even after removing the package from the cache: Error unpacking rpm package man-1.6d-2.el5.i386 error: unpacking

[CentOS] Wiki CR Repo Link Defective

2011-09-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, John R Pierce wrote: > What state should it be in? should that file be referenced as > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/cr/x86_64/RPMS/centos-release-cr.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm > ? > > or should there be a new > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/cr/x86_64/RPMS/centos-r