On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 11:44, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.com wrote:
On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:40:01 AM PDT Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 4/8/19 3:20 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
I'm about to rebuild a server, currently running CentOS 6. If I have
to do
an OS reinstall, my intention is to upgrade, as it's the oldest OS
server
under my purview. As this server is pretty low visibility, I'd like to see if I can start using EL 8 instead of 7.x.
In the past, I was able to switch between different OS variants by
simply
changing out the yum.d files; EG: RHEL 6.x becomes CentOS 6.x by
replacing
a single RPM and doing a `yum -y clean all; yum -y update` without
issue.
How likely is it that similar functionality will exist switching from
RHEL
8 Beta to CentOS 8 final? Google pounding provided little info. I couldn't even find useful information for the transition from RHEL 7 Beta.
There will not be any plan to do that, no. Nor could you upgrade from RHEL-8 beta to RHEL-8. They just don't build it with that in mind.
As Smooge said .. it might be possible. But the whole point of the beta is to allow for design changes. The full package set was likely not completely set, so some things could be removed or added and a bunch of manual removals, re-installs would be required. Different libraries may be linked. Etc, etc.
I can't see almost any circumstance where I would recommend doing this.
Thank you. Gonna roll with 6 for a few more years then.
CentOS 6 entered Maintenance Support 2 (see https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ ) on May 10th 2017 and now only receives critical updates. It will go EOL on 30 Nov, 2020 -- in 1 year, 33 weeks, 3 days, and some hours... shortly after that it will be moved off to archives like C5 and C4 before it.
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