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Re: Moving from EL N to EL N+1
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Christopher Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Christopher Tooley <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:31:42 -0800
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> I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for 
> major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, etc.). 

They were probably thinking about the yum update procedure. The DVD/CD update procedure is definitely available - though perhaps not as nice as a complete clean install.

-Chris

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