On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 14:17 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo
rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm
yum update
reboot, and voilà
The above would only update a package if the centos repos had a higher version number than the installed SL one.... I would strongly suggest something akin to yum reinstall * and leave it to chug away (backups first naturally) for a while to refresh all the packages and teh rpm database to be in sync with the centos build..... requires matching, same build options for sure etc etc....
In the event something crops up it at least eliminates an odd untested mix for certain fundamental packages like glibc etc....
An idle question:
What is the advantage of switching to CentOS 6 if you already are running SL6? Or at least... what is the purpose? I'm not really clear on the difference (other than CentOS is the noisier bit of the party).
-Iwao