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?

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 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? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/cento

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 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: Maria-Probst

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 wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Mathew S. McCarrell > 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

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 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 internal mirrors s

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 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 /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

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 wrote: > > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo has this: > > > > #released updates > > [updates] > > name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates > > mirrorlist= > http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates > > #baseurl=http://mirr

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-$releasever - Updates > mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates > #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > gpgcheck=1 > ena

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" ___ CentO

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 Mathew S. McCarrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > On Wednesday 21 October 2009 18:01, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Yves Bellefeuille > wrote: > > > > > I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? > > > > Many of them should be current

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 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 Mbps jum

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 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 Clarkson

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 "Yves Bellefeuille: Eterna malvenkanto en UEA" -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 389 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

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 Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matt 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 tasks. DNS and mai

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

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 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 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\* pytho

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 shutdo

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 Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Moore 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 apply to some extent: h

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 http://lists.centos.or

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, wh

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 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 abou

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 serv

[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