Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Was there an official CentOS 5.4 announcemnet already? financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München:

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-22 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Christoph Maser schrieb: Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Was there an official CentOS 5.4 announcemnet already?

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: Christoph Maser schrieb: Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Was there an official CentOS 5.4 announcemnet already?

[CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Brian Kirkman
Jonathan Moore wrote: Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:25:53 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Fedora does not have 'point releases'. Right... One does a 'fresh' re-install every 6 months to a year (or something like that). Well, not quite. Although it being what it is and sometimes breaking, you can yum upgrade it[1], but the suggested method involves using anaconda to upgrade it,

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Thanks for the input folks. I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes. Very good to know. -jonathan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Moore supermegat...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the input folks.  I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes.  Very good to know. The documentation here should

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Matt
Hi there folks.  I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question.  I'm pretty new to anything rpm based.  I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it.  Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I've never done an upgrade before either, so I go to this URL : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 And I execute these commands yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* python\* yum clean all yum update

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Alan McKay wrote: OK, I've never done an upgrade before either, so I go to this URL : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 And I execute these commands yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* python\* yum

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 14:46:05 Robert Heller wrote: Yes. Generally, doing yum update or yum upgrade will pick up new point releases as they become available. *Sometimes* you need to do something special (the 5.2 to 5.3 update required an upgrade of glibc on its own before the main

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Alan McKay wrote: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync sure,

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, why the move from Debian to CentOS? There is very little in the way of technical reasoning for it. Mostly it was a call by those in charge. We still have several servers running Debian doing various network related

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Molloy
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 16:31:13 Alan McKay wrote: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? -- Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca Yves Bellefeuille: Eterna malvenkanto en UEA -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 389 ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca wrote: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Many of them should be current since the official release just occurred. I've already seen 25 Mbps jump in traffic on the

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 18:01, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca wrote: I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Many of them should be current since the official release just occurred. I've already seen 25

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca wrote: On Wednesday 21 October 2009 18:01, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca wrote: I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Many of them

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:16, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: That is a bit strange. I would have expected the links to be http://server/centos/*5*/blahblah instead of having 5.3. Is your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo still the original version or has someone customized it to look at

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/centos/5.3/updates/i386/ Look ma, no hands! http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/centos/5.4/updates/i386/ -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo has this: #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch=$basearchrepo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo has this: #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch=$basearchrepo=updates

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca wrote: On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:16, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: That is a bit strange. I would have expected the links to be http://server/centos/*5*/blahblah instead of having 5.3. Is your

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Mathew S. McCarrell mccar...@gmail.com wrote: Updating your repo file like this is a very bad idea.  You would be better off waiting for the mirrorlist.txt file to update instead of causing yourself more headaches in the long run. In my case I use all my own

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Mathew S. McCarrell mccar...@gmail.com wrote: Updating your repo file like this is a very bad idea. You would be better off waiting for the mirrorlist.txt file to update instead of