Atomicorp

Hi,

I am running centos 4.2 and tried to update/upgrade in root using yum update and yum upgrade. Now, I've found that that this version of yum does not upgrade the OS version number like on my previous server.

Although the server root and Plesk admin say I am using centos 4.2 the packages are the same versions on the centos mirror for the 4 version which includes 4.3, 4.4 as on my server.

I would like to install Plesk 8.1 to get awstats but it says it has to be on centos 4.3 although I did find a text doc of plesk that was updating to Plesk 8.1 from centos 4.2 and I have Plesk 8.1 listed in my Plesk admin area along with Plesk 8.0.

I'm really surprised that yum doesn't upgrade the OS any longer. It was so easy before.

Is it ok to upgrade Plesk to 8.1 even though I am on centos 4.2 or will there be problems?

Is there another way to upgrade the OS to 4.3? I didn't install it and don't have any disks.

Thanks!

What does yum say when you run yum update? If the OS is having trouble with updates, you need to talk to the CentOS folks about that.

This is all it says:


[root@godslove ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
atomic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from Atomic Rocket Turtle - 4ES - Atomic PSA-Compatible RPMS
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

and I checked the package versions and they are all up to date as shown on the centos mirror.

Someone told me that yum would update the OS going from 3.6 to 4.2 but the yum version on 4.2 going higher has to go through some other thing but they didn't know what and I don't either.

Just got some answers from the centos list:
1. AFAIK, the "4" in http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/ is symlinked
to the latest version - in this case 4.4

2. The Plesk server administration only records the version when it is installed
or upgraded. It should just say CentOS 4. If your Redhat release file says 4.4
then you are running 4.4. You might have installed with a 4.2 CD, but that
still means you have CentOS 4.

So it looks like I am running CentOS 4.4 anyway so why does my server still say [root@godslove etc]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-4-4.2