[Cialug] Upgrading CentOS

[David Champion]

Test the upgrade in a VM?

I believe the recommended practice for CentOS 5 to 6 is a fresh install.
I've done several that way, haven't had any major issues with PHP sites.

hereletmegooglethatforyou:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/MigratingFiveToSix

-dc


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:45 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Need to upgrade a CentOS box, .. have create a backup/test box and
> installed patches to 5.10.
>
> Question is - how does one normally go about upgrading [and testing] core
> services like PHP & Apache? I am not that familiar with CentOS, but it
> does appear that does core services do not upgrade along with the OS, so a
> separate process is involved?
>
> That will be the endpoint for a while, .. when we decide to go to 6.n it
> will be a complete rebuild. Just trying to solve some weird crashes right
> now.
>
>         TIA!
>
>         Lee
>
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