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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/08/18 16:39, Rich Bowen wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:df130199-f43b-6dde-3be1-f9ed2a739640@redhat.com">Hi,
folks,
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I was hoping that someone with more knowledge than I about the 6
-> 7 upgrade process would have a look at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool">https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CentOSUpgradeTool</a>
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The page starts with a vague warning, and then continues to give
detailed instructions, leaving it very unclear which parts the
warning refers to.
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It's not particularly vague.<br>
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<p class="line862"> <img class="attachment"
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<p class="line891"><strong>DO NOT USE this tool. Warning:
use of this tool is currently BROKEN as several
system-critical packages are of a higher version number
in CentOS 6.7 than they are in CentOS 7 so those do not
get upgraded correctly. This renders yum and several
other system tools non-functional.</strong></p>
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How much more definite about it being broken and unusable does it
need to be?<br>
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cite="mid:df130199-f43b-6dde-3be1-f9ed2a739640@redhat.com">If the
process is broken, let's remove all of this and point to the
correct process. If only a part of the process is broken, we need
to remove that from the doc, and drop the scary warning.
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It's broken and despite many calls for people to step up to maintain
the tool, nothing has happened.<br>
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Trevor<br>
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