On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:20:07PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote:
I have never had a problem upgrading a CentOS release since I started with 3.x. Seems now, I can't even upgrade from 5.6 to 5.7. I have never had to do a complete re-install since moving from Slackware 1.x to Redhat 2.x except once when I had a hard drive failure.
There is no 5.7 yet.
The software package I use which takes hours of trial and error to compile and install is as simple apt-get install under Ubunto. There are no rpms for zoneminder 1.24.x. The compliation of ffmpeg/zoneminder seems to be an issue with CentOS with the outdated php/mysql and other various libs.
I know of at least one packaged zoneminder and its required deps; I'm not sure if it's public but if it is the person that did the packaging will likely speak up as he is on this list. So it's indeed possible.
I can see the direction RHEL is taking and its more and more like Microsoft. The enduser is having to be more and more dependent on the provider. CentOS has its hands tied.
This is purely FUD.
I thank all for the help I have recievied over the years, its just not beneficial to stay this current direction.
Good luck with future endeavors.
John