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Centos 4.4 to 5 upgrade too much of a pain

By silfreed - Posted on May 8th, 2007
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Apparently upgrading from CentOS 4.4 to 5 isn't as easy as updating the centos-release package and typing `yum upgrade`. This is unfortunate, as the computers that I have running CentOS are typically the ones I like to have a high uptime, so this means I need to take them down to run Anaconda. I guess that's just the way it goes this upgrade cycle (same for Fedora 7).

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Submitted by Leland (not verified) on Tue, 2007/05/22 - 09:59.

Why not just go to CentOS4.5? That's what "Enterprise Linux" is all about, innit? Or maybe the 5 upgrade's problems are the reason 4.5 has come out...

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Submitted by Doug (not verified) on Tue, 2007/05/22 - 10:14.

Actually, I have updated the servers that were running CentOS 4.4 to 4.5 when it came out last week, but there is one server in particular that I wanted newer packages than what is currently provided by CentOS 4.x. In this regard, Fedora is *too* upgrade-happy for me, but typically I want the next RHEL when it's available.

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