how can i upgrade centos 4.3 to 4.5??

[hugedragon]

i currently using centos 4.3 with DA.. can i use yum to do it?? thanks

[smtalk]

Sure you can :) It's a safe way to update OS from 4.x to 4.x.

[hugedragon]

but i use 'yum upgrade'.. i get "No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion"..

did I miss something? :confused:

[smtalk]

It's ok to use "yum update", after that run:
cat /etc/redhat-release to see if you have centos 4.5.

[hugedragon]

It's ok to use "yum update", after that run:
cat /etc/redhat-release to see if you have centos 4.5.

hi,

I use yum update and then cat /etc/redhat-release ... its still CentOS release 4.3 (Final) :rolleyes:

[nobaloney]

Check your /etc/yum.conf file. Check to make sure you're not excluding everything (*).

Check your /var/log/yum.log file for errors.

Jeff

[hugedragon]

hi,

I use 'yum upgrade' and then check the yum.log but nothing inside

This my yum.conf =>

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-devel kernel-smp-devel kernel-largesmp kernel-largesmp-devel kernel-hugemem kernel-hugemem-devel
distroverpkg=centos-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
exclude=apache* httpd* mod_* mysql* MySQL* da_* *ftp* exim* sendmail* php* named*

[nobaloney]

Does yum appear to update? Are there any error messages? Does yum ask you if you want to update? What messages do you get in /var/log/yum.log?

Jeff

[hugedragon]

[root@server02 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.3 (Final)


[root@server02 ~]# yum upgrade
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

nothing inside /var/log/yum.log :o

[nobaloney]

You may be using only dead repositories. For further info, I'd check with folk on the CentOS users mailing list.

Jeff

[iceuk626]

[root@server02 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.3 (Final)


[root@server02 ~]# yum upgrade
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

nothing inside /var/log/yum.log :o

i see your still using yum upgrade, try using yum update

[nobaloney]

I should have seen that :( . Please let us know if yum update works for you.

Jeff

[hugedragon]

hi,

same result..

[root@server02 ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

[nobaloney]

I'm out of ideas :( .

Jeff

[tek]

I think the "installonlypkgs=" line in your yum.conf is preventing you from installing the other packages. You might want to comment "#" it out.

[nobaloney]

Good catch. Makes sense.

Jeff

[r0kawa]

I think you need to upgrade the header / banner file first than do the yum update. Yum still detect this distro still a centos 4.3 and not update to 4.4 if no OS banner for 4.4 detected.

It's almost the same as upgrading fedora

http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/99/upgrade-fc5-to-fc6-with-yum/

rpm -Uhv http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm

and after that do the yum -y update for not prompting any question.

[drenalin]

This thread is long dead...but was noticing that he has *ftp* in the include line which would like exclude all. Should just be ftp*.



thx
Scott

[floyd]

*ftp* would exclude all ftp related rpm's which is what you want.