[Yum] Major version upgrade via YUM??

[Sciandra, Joel]

These appliances are built with pxe/kickstart, but are now deployed at
customer sites
behind customer firewalls.

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[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Garrick Staples
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 12:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Yum] Major version upgrade via YUM??

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:06:33PM -0400, Sciandra, Joel alleged:
> As I have 120 server appliances to upgrade, reinstall would, well,
suck.
> 
> Thanks for the script. I will play around with it. I need to change it

> to 32bit, smp arch.
> Any other guidance that you can think of. Thanks in advance.

Yes, stop doing manual installs.  Set up pxe/kickstart so that
(re)installing machines is a snap.

I only used that script for testing some specific apps.  I personally
won't use that on a production server.