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] 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] 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 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?

2011-09-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > 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: >>  Modi

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

2011-09-23 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:37:38AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > 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: >

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

2011-09-23 Thread nux
Aleksey Tsalolikhin writes: > 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. > Use the 5.6 repos from the vault in your yum configs: http://vault.centos.org/5.6/ -- Nux! www.nux.ro ___

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

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/22/2011 06:20 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> 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 followin

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

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/22/2011 06:20 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> 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 followin

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

2011-09-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:32 AM, fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:37:38AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> 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,

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

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 07:20:15 AM Rudi Ahlers wrote: > surely a few versions of the OS won't take up that much space? 1TB & > 2TB HDD's these day cost a few dollars so I don't think that's the > real reason. And it can't be bandwidth either since the files are > mirrored to many other ser