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Guillermo Garron

8 Jan 2007 8 Jan '07

9:16 p.m.

Hi List,

Do you think that will be possible to upgrade from 4.4 to 5?

I have a couple for email and web servers running on 4.4.

regards,

-- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://www.go2linux.org

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William Warren

8 Jan 8 Jan

10:31 p.m.

it's not advised nor supported by the upstream due to the major differences in the packages.

Guillermo Garron wrote:

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Hi List,

Do you think that will be possible to upgrade from 4.4 to 5?

I have a couple for email and web servers running on 4.4.

regards,

-- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/

Karanbir Singh

9 Jan 9 Jan

2:20 a.m.

Guillermo Garron wrote:

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Hi List,

Do you think that will be possible to upgrade from 4.4 to 5?

so far in the testing thats been done - it seems so Yes it will be possible. The update route is something that we want to *try* and have in place by the time CentOS-5 is released.

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I have a couple for email and web servers running on 4.4.

CentOS-4 is still going to be supported for many more years. Unless you really have a need to - why update ? Thats what one of the major benefits of using CentOS is.

- KB

-- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

Guillermo Garron

2:29 a.m.

On 1/8/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

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Guillermo Garron wrote:

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Hi List,

Do you think that will be possible to upgrade from 4.4 to 5?

so far in the testing thats been done - it seems so Yes it will be possible. The update route is something that we want to *try* and have in place by the time CentOS-5 is released.

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I have a couple for email and web servers running on 4.4.

CentOS-4 is still going to be supported for many more years. Unless you really have a need to - why update ? Thats what one of the major benefits of using CentOS is.

Thank you very much,

I think i will have my old servers with 4.4 and only use CentOS 5 on the new ones, one a Stable CentOS become availabe.

thanks

-- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://www.go2linux.org

Phil Schaffner

10 Jan 10 Jan

1:32 p.m.

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 02:20 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:

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Guillermo Garron wrote:

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Hi List,

Do you think that will be possible to upgrade from 4.4 to 5?

so far in the testing thats been done - it seems so Yes it will be possible. The update route is something that we want to *try* and have in place by the time CentOS-5 is released.

Just for grins, I did a VMware install of CentOS 4.3 Workstation+KDE (didn't have a 4.4 DVD lying around) and immediately updated to RHEL5-Beta with "linux upgradeany". The upgraded VM worked (booted at least) but did 600+ updates on the first "yum update" with yum repos pointed to a directory tree of all the current RHEL5 Workstation Beta packages. Apparently anaconda didn't see all the available packages due to the product key I used. After the update, there were still several dozen orphan CentOS4 packages left over according to "rpm -qa --last".

So, based on this quick/dirty test - looks like update will be possible, but as usual, not easy or to-be-recommended.

Phil

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