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Upgrade CentOS 3.3 to 3.4 using yum
By bob | April 16, 2008
centOS freely available linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprices Linux which is 100% binary compatible with the upstream product and within its mainline and update. It is very stable and great Operating system to work with.
Check here the process to upgrade from CentOS 3.3 to 3.4 using yum;
First step, download
rpm -ivh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumcache-3.1-0.20050105.3.noarch.rpm
rpm -Fvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-release-3-4.2.i386.rpm
yum update
Your yum config should look something like the following:
[main]
exclude=mod_ssl* httpd* perl mysql* php* #this is mainly for cpanel servers
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://beta.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://beta.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
baseurl=http://beta.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
baseurl=http://beta.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
#centosplus repo - updated packages that extend beyond rhel release versions
#run auto update with this repo enabled only if you know you want extended functonality
#[centosplus]
#name=CentOS-$releasever - CentOSplus
#baseurl=http://beta.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
#gpgcheck=1
#packages in testing
#[testing]
#name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing
#baseurl=http://beta.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
#gpgcheck=1
To avoid any problem for upgrading it is recommended that you backup of your /etc/named.conf file before upgrading.
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