Hi all,
Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ?
Thanks in advice!
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:20 +0300, Sergej Kandyla wrote:
Hi all,
Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ?
Thanks in advice!
I would expect a migration similar to that described under "Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5" on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide to work. One difference would be that some FC6 packages are likely to be newer than the corresponding CentOS packages. The upcoming 5.2 release should help in this respect.
Please report results and consider adding to the Wiki MigrationGuide page if successful.
Phil
Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:20 +0300, Sergej Kandyla wrote:
Hi all,
Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ?
Thanks in advice!
I would expect a migration similar to that described under "Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5" on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide to work. One difference would be that some FC6 packages are likely to be newer than the corresponding CentOS packages. The upcoming 5.2 release should help in this respect.
Actually, I would think that MOST things in fc6 would be newer.
It would be very hard to get all the CentOS things upgraded (I would think). Maybe it would work.
I would run something like:
rpm -qa --qf 'name %{distribution}\n' after the initial yum upgrade (if it completes) and figure out how to do it.
In fact, I would setup a VM with the same package list and upgrade that as a test and NEVER do it on an important live system as the first upgrade.
Please report results and consider adding to the Wiki MigrationGuide page if successful.
on 6-12-2008 5:20 AM Sergej Kandyla spake the following:
Hi all,
Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ?
Thanks in advice!
You could try a remote anaconda upgrade using vnc.
Something like this; http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2005/06/15/upgrading_to_centos4_over_a_r... but with adjustments. You would still need to look for orphans, and the usual things.
Maybe if you backed up configs and data files and removed as many packages as you could to minimize the hassle. Even though RHEL5 is based on Fedora 6, I think the package freeze was about mid-cycle, and Fedora kept evolving after the freeze.
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