On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Tim Alberts talberts@msiscales.com wrote:
Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems I haven't already seen (and know were fixed).
The main reason for the move is so I don't have to re-install so frequently and hopefully not have to deal with so many daily updates. I would use the 'upstream vendor' (respectfully), but I work under no IT $ budget.
If you are going to do a 'reinstall' of the systems.. you should have no problems. If you do a up-grade from Fedora-6 to CentOS there will be a couple of problems as the packages in 6 kept on moving forward after the 'fork' in the road. I needed to hand install packages to get past this so that I didnt end up with 'unsupported' but 'newer' items on my box. The best method I had was:
rpm -qa --qf='%{NAME}-%{VERSION}\n' | sort > oldrpms and then compare that with what 5 had in them to look for conflicts/version changes. Make sure I had plans on how to upgrade those by hand (I think the kernel and the glibc were the tricky ones where I needed to do some reboot shuffles to get it cleanly working.)