On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, David Eisner wrote:
R P Herrold wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, David Eisner wrote:
With the end of Legacy support for RH9, I'd like to migrate my Fedora Legacified RH9 box to Centos 3.
Any thoughts on whether this should also work with the .legacy packages?
As author of the migration instructions in question, let me give an unqualified "Yes, probably" .... ;)
- The Centos-3.8 isos for CD 1 and 3 both had a
comps-3.8centos.0-0.20060803.i386.rpm package, which were not identical. I used the CD 3 version.
noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process
"yum -y -t -c /etc/yum-upgrade.conf upgrade rpm kernel",
[Segmentation fault happened here]
hmmm --- wish I had more information here -- probably the instructions need to be updated to suggest removing all but the kernel in use; a pre-conversion 'yum -y clean all' would probably be prophylactic as well.
To solve this, I first tried upgrading python from python-2.2.2-26 to python-2.2.3-26, using an RPM downloaded from www.python.org. This
ouch -- python version dependent matters are _so_ integral to a Red Hat derived system, that I consider that pretty 'daring'
- Step 8. has one run the same two commands twice. The
second time I ran "rpm -vv --rebuilddb", it was not happy:
I rebooted, and then the rebuilddb worked. The second "yum -y -t -c /etc/yum-upgrade.conf upgrade rpm kernel" ran and, not surprisingly, told me there were no upgrades available.
We are in terra incognita here with the python version possibly in play; I think my instructions whould suggest the reboot before the first and second rebuilddb's again, not for a known issue, but to make sure we are under the new kernel
- Step 9. worked fine, it just took awhile. However, a few
.legacy packages remained:
$ rpm -qa |grep legacy
sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy fetchmail-6.2.0-3.4.legacy libpng10-1.0.15-0.9.1.legacy gettext-0.11.4-7.2.legacy kernel-2.4.20-46.9.legacy tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.4.legacy libpcap-0.7.2-7.9.4.legacy kernel-2.4.20-43.9.legacy zip-2.3-26.1.0.9.legacy sendmail-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy
I had not considered this later versioned material (when the outline was written, it was in the future, and unknowable as to how this would play out), as the path I outlined from RHL 9 would not encounter it; I will approach other members of the CentOS team in the topic of how we are to offer a path to 'care' for the people orphaned by the EOL of FL.
btw, Kudos to Jesse and the folks who kept FL running for the two years or so it ran -- I know how difficult starting and running a distribution is, and a great effort and success were the result.
I removed the legacy kernel packages, and "upgraded" the rest manually with rpm -Uvh --force. That seems to have worked. Then I rebooted.
I will consider adding a section about 'housekeeping' to identify and get back onto the CentOS main line path for the FL transitioners. seems like a good idea. Thanks for noting this.
Finally I replaced /etc/yum.conf with the sample given in the Owl River instructions, and it appears to be working (there were two packages available for updating (GConf and oaf) which I was able to do with no problems).
Great -- Thank You, David.
-- Russ Herrold
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, R P Herrold wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, David Eisner wrote:
- The Centos-3.8 isos for CD 1 and 3 both had a
comps-3.8centos.0-0.20060803.i386.rpm package, which were not identical. I used the CD 3 version.
noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process
Errm I think U8 was the last respin for rhel3 ... and likewise CentOS 3 ???
Regards Lance
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Lance Davis wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, R P Herrold wrote:
noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process
Errm I think U8 was the last respin for rhel3 ... and likewise CentOS 3 ???
I think he said said ("would be along in reasonably soon") or at least meant to say that :)
Cheers,
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Lance Davis wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, R P Herrold wrote:
noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process
Errm I think U8 was the last respin for rhel3 ... and likewise CentOS 3 ???
I think he said said ("would be along in reasonably soon") or at least meant to say that :)
Yay for incomplete sentences:
... to say that 3.9 will be available in the not so distant future and will get a respin of the ISOs.
Ralph
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:39 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Lance Davis wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, R P Herrold wrote:
noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process
Errm I think U8 was the last respin for rhel3 ... and likewise CentOS 3 ???
I think he said said ("would be along in reasonably soon") or at least meant to say that :)
Yay for incomplete sentences:
... to say that 3.9 will be available in the not so distant future and will get a respin of the ISOs.
But ... I think Lance means that RHEL-3 is in Maintenance Mode upstream ... and that 3.8 MAY have been the latest respin.
If it is not the last respin, it is probably the next to last one.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:39 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
... to say that 3.9 will be available in the not so distant future and will get a respin of the ISOs.
But ... I think Lance means that RHEL-3 is in Maintenance Mode upstream ... and that 3.8 MAY have been the latest respin.
Okay. It *is* monday after all and I'm still trying to wake up :)
Ralph
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, R P Herrold wrote:
noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process
I think he said said ("would be along in reasonably soon") or at least meant to say that :)
Ralph
Thanks, Ralph -- looks like at least _someone_ understands how I type ;)
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