Re: [CentOS] questions about upgrading

2011-09-19 Thread isdtor
> 2) can I upgrade a minor version to any other greater minor number, or only > to the greatest?  E.g. if i have a v5.4 box, can i upgrade to v5.5 or v5.6, > or only to v5.7 (currently the latest)? Yes if you configure the repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d accordingly (i.e. use the vault). > 3)

Re: [CentOS] questions about upgrading

2011-09-19 Thread m . roth
Jon Detert wrote: > I'm pretty new to the task of upgrading CentOS or RedHat o.s.'s. I'm more > familiar with upgrading Debian based o.s.'s. Here are my questions: > > 1) will yum ever upgrade the major version? I understand that there is no > upgrade path from v5.x to v6.x, but is that always t

[CentOS] questions about upgrading

2011-09-19 Thread Jon Detert
I'm pretty new to the task of upgrading CentOS or RedHat o.s.'s. I'm more familiar with upgrading Debian based o.s.'s. Here are my questions: 1) will yum ever upgrade the major version? I understand that there is no upgrade path from v5.x to v6.x, but is that always the case? e.g. was there