[CentOS] about major version upgrades
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
office at plnet.rsTue Feb 7 12:39:25 UTC 2012
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On 02/07/2012 07:04 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi all, > > In http://goo.gl/Krjfh I read: > > +++++++++++++++++++++++ > Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5: > We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an > inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 > +++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Do you ever now if that advice will be up to date for the 6 to 7 upgrade? > > What is the preferred upgrade process if some want to upgrade inplace? > I mostly run virtual guest in a one-VM-per-service (MySQL, php, Mail, > DNS, NFS/SMB) basis, with a main + spare physical machine. > > I'm installing 6.2 on our dev servers and try to pre-evaluate the amount > of work when 7 will be released. > 6.x will be supported until 2020. Reinstalling once in 10 years should not be the problem. Reinstall is ALWAYS advised, since probably many packages will be either depreciated or heavily changed in version 7.0. That being said, there will always be unsupported way to upgrade from one version to the next. It is Your choice in the end. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
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