Upgrading from v6.4 to 6.8

[ScottB]

I am trying to upgrade CentOS from v6.4 to 6.8 but when I try

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yum update

it says

Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

.

I tried

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yum clean all

that resulted in

Cleaning repos: base extras updates
Cleaning up Everything

doing

yum update

after that gave me

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Setting up Update Process
base                                                                                       | 3.7 kB     00:00
base/primary_db                                                                            | 4.6 MB     00:00
extras                                                                                     | 3.4 kB     00:00
extras/primary_db                                                                          |  30 kB     00:00
updates                                                                                    | 3.4 kB     00:00
updates/primary_db                                                                         | 2.1 MB     00:00
No Packages marked for Update

[TrevorH]

Post the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

[ScottB]

Post the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Sorry for the late reply. I forgot to subscribe to the thread.

Here is what it says;

root@webserver [~]# /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
-bash: /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo: Permission denied

[TrevorH]

You can't execute it, it's a config file and we need to see the contents of it.

[ScottB]

@TrevorH Sorry, here are the contents;

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# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever.$basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-updates.$basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-extras.$basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-centosplus.$basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
mirrorlist=http://p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/cos-$releasever-contrib.$basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[TrevorH]

OK, so your problem is that your provider has replaced all the mirrorlist= lines in that with a URL that points to their own servers. They may have done this because they've modified the content or they may have done it for network bandwidth issues but it would appear that their content is massively out of date though, since I cannot get to that URL from here, I cannot check to see what is there. You should probably report this to them for two reasons: first to ask if they modify the contents and if so, why and what will break if you use the correct unmodified content and second to tell them that their mirror is 4 years out of date and needs to be fixed so that their customers are not exposed to already fixed security bugs.

If you want to change the URL back to the CentOS supplied one then each of those lines should point to

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$ ... ch&repo=os

where each &repo= should point to os/updates/extras/centosplus and contrib respectively. Depending on if and how they've modified the content, that might break your system though so you really need to know why they did this.

[ScottB]

@TrevorH Thank you. I will contact GoDaddy asap!