Is there a list of "supported" methods for deployment of CentOS 7.2 on Power8? I know folks with VMs behind VIO servers with PowerVM. I understand VMs under PowerKVM with OPAL are also supported. Any ideas on bare metal CentOS under OPAL, Power8 with either latest firmware levels (FW840 or OP810)?

Regards,
James Nash
jjnash@us.ibm.com
Power Systems Strategic Initiatives Team

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> 1. Re: [CentOS-announce] Announcing release for MySQL 5.5 and
> 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL (Leon Fauster)
> 2. Re: [CentOS-announce] Announcing release for MySQL 5.5 and
> 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL (Nico Kadel-Garcia)
> 3. Re: CentOS Upgrade Tool (Ulrich Leodolter)
> 4. Re: CentOS Upgrade Tool (Peter)
> 5. Re: [CentOS-announce] Announcing release for MySQL 5.5 and
> 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL (Karanbir Singh)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:18:50 +0100
> From: Leon Fauster <leonfauster@googlemail.com>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel@centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] [CentOS-announce] Announcing release for
> MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL
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> Hi Honza,
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>> Am 21.12.2015 um 17:20 schrieb Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com>:
>>
>> I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of versions 5.5 and 5.6 of the MySQL on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64, delivered via a Software Collection (SCL) built by the SCLo Special Interest Group (https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo).
>>
>> QuickStart
>> ----------
>> You can get started in three easy steps (example of MySQL 5.6):
>> $ sudo yum install centos-release-scl
>> $ sudo yum install rh-mysql56
>> $ scl enable rh-mysql56 bash
>
>
> should centos-release-scl not have at least a "Obsoletes: centos-release-SCL" statement?
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-SCL-6-5.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm
> vs
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-scl-6-6.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
>
> --
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:51:56 -0500
> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel@centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] [CentOS-announce] Announcing release for
> MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL
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> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Leon Fauster
> <leonfauster@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Honza,
>>
>>> Am 21.12.2015 um 17:20 schrieb Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com>:
>>>
>>> I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of versions 5.5 and 5.6 of the MySQL on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64, delivered via a Software Collection (SCL) built by the SCLo Special Interest Group (https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo).
>>>
>>> QuickStart
>>> ----------
>>> You can get started in three easy steps (example of MySQL 5.6):
>>> $ sudo yum install centos-release-scl
>>> $ sudo yum install rh-mysql56
>>> $ scl enable rh-mysql56 bash
>>
>>
>> should centos-release-scl not have at least a "Obsoletes: centos-release-SCL" statement?
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-SCL-6-5.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm
>> vs
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-scl-6-6.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
>
> And a "Provides: centos-release-SCL", for people like me with "mock"
> configurations that used it.
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:20:30 +0100 (CET)
> From: Ulrich Leodolter <ulrich.leodolter@obvsg.at>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel@centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS Upgrade Tool
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> Hi,
>
>> Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@redhat.com> hat am 6. Januar 2016 um 17:49 geschrieben:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Bruno Martins <bruno.martins@rumos.pt> wrote:
>>> I've used the tool with '--force' parameter and it upgraded just fine. Now
>>> I'm having some side effects like:
>>> "grep: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.0: cannot open
>>> shared object file: No such file or directory"
>>
>> I had a similar issue with grep when I upgraded my CentOS 6 home
>> server to CentOS 7 last week. As explained elsewhere, the issue is
>> that not all .el6 packages get upgraded.
>
> I have upgraded a couple of C6 machines last weeks, it works much better
> with 7.2 now, at least the system boots and ssh works :)
>
> The grep issue can be fixed after upgrade very simply:
>
> $ yum downgrade grep
>
> BR
> Ulrich
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:47:59 +1300
> From: Peter <peter@pajamian.dhs.org>
> To: centos-devel@centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS Upgrade Tool
> Message-ID: <5694BDBF.1000309@pajamian.dhs.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
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>> On 12/01/16 21:20, Ulrich Leodolter wrote:
>> I have upgraded a couple of C6 machines last weeks, it works much better
>> with 7.2 now, at least the system boots and ssh works :)
>>
>> The grep issue can be fixed after upgrade very simply:
>>
>> $ yum downgrade grep
>
> First off I *do not* support the use of the upgrade tool under any
> circumstances, just in case I haven't made my position clear in the
> past. That said, you'll probably do a more thorough job of fixing all
> the mistakes made by the upgrade too if you follow it up with:
>
> yum distro-sync
>
> This should fix grep and any other package that is still left on the el6
> version.
>
>
> Peter
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:58:52 +0000
> From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org>
> To: centos-devel@centos.org, Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] [CentOS-announce] Announcing release for
> MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL
> Message-ID: <5694DC6C.9000600@centos.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
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> On 12/01/16 03:51, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> should centos-release-scl not have at least a "Obsoletes: centos-release-SCL" statement?
>>>
>>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-SCL-6-5.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm
>>> vs
>>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-scl-6-6.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
>>
>> And a "Provides: centos-release-SCL", for people like me with "mock"
>> configurations that used it.
>
> honza can shed a bit more light on this, but it was discussed before the
> first SCL release - and it appeared to not be needed, as new users would
> just migrate over.
>
> regards,
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