On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:18 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:

Hi

Is it possible to swap the yum.conf from my centos box onto my whitebox box and have the whitebox machine use centos updates through yum? CentOS seems further ahead and far quicker at roll outs than whitebox?

thanks

There are a couple other things to worry about ... centos-release, the yum configuration, importing the key we use to sign packages, etc.

here is a guide from going to centos-3 from wbel-3 ... doing it for centos-4 is similar ... look for RPMS in the /4/ hive and not the /3/ hive ... use the centos-4 signing key, not the centos-3 one ... there is no centos-yumcache in centos-4.

CentOS-4 has a /etc/yum.conf AND a /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory with a file named CentOS-Base.repo, there is a whitebox file in /etc/yum.repos.d that you would want to remove.

Other than that, the method is the same:

http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19

I might recommend that you also do:

rpm -e whitebox-release