Hello,
I have some servers that have lost their RHEL update entitlements. Thinking through it, I realized we may not really need those entitlements. However, I would still like to automate keeping them up to date for security fixes. So, is there any way to swap out the Yum/up2date RHEL repositories for CentOS without breaking things?
Thanks! -Eugene
Eugene Vilensky wrote:
Hello,
I have some servers that have lost their RHEL update entitlements. Thinking through it, I realized we may not really need those entitlements. However, I would still like to automate keeping them up to date for security fixes. So, is there any way to swap out the Yum/up2date RHEL repositories for CentOS without breaking things?
see Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5 near the bottom of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide
if you have 4, its similar but different. if you have 3, time to wipe and upgrade IMHO.
John R Pierce wrote:
see Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5 near the bottom of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide
if you have 4, its similar but different. if you have 3, time to wipe and upgrade IMHO.
oops, eat my words, here's RHEL3
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS3#head-10bce23c2383ab4be8a9f0926578e96f5e0a...
IIRC, the procedure for RHEL4->CentOS4 is somewhere between the 3 and 5 process. you need to install yum and the repo files as well as the centos keys, then do the rest ...
note all these procedures will result in a hybrid system where some of your packages are from the upstream vendor, and others from the centos project. while this SHOULD work together OK, and many of us have done exactly that, it is officially UNTESTED and you're on your own.
on 6-16-2009 3:13 PM John R Pierce spake the following:
John R Pierce wrote:
see Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5 near the bottom of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide
if you have 4, its similar but different. if you have 3, time to wipe and upgrade IMHO.
oops, eat my words, here's RHEL3
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS3#head-10bce23c2383ab4be8a9f0926578e96f5e0a...
IIRC, the procedure for RHEL4->CentOS4 is somewhere between the 3 and 5 process. you need to install yum and the repo files as well as the centos keys, then do the rest ...
note all these procedures will result in a hybrid system where some of your packages are from the upstream vendor, and others from the centos project. while this SHOULD work together OK, and many of us have done exactly that, it is officially UNTESTED and you're on your own.
It's CentOS... Except for the forums and the mailing lists, you are on your own anyway!
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:21:16PM -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
on 6-16-2009 3:13 PM John R Pierce spake the following:
John R Pierce wrote:
see Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5 near the bottom of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide
if you have 4, its similar but different. if you have 3, time to wipe and upgrade IMHO.
oops, eat my words, here's RHEL3
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS3#head-10bce23c2383ab4be8a9f0926578e96f5e0a...
IIRC, the procedure for RHEL4->CentOS4 is somewhere between the 3 and 5 process. you need to install yum and the repo files as well as the centos keys, then do the rest ...
note all these procedures will result in a hybrid system where some of your packages are from the upstream vendor, and others from the centos project. while this SHOULD work together OK, and many of us have done exactly that, it is officially UNTESTED and you're on your own.
It's CentOS... Except for the forums and the mailing lists, you are on your own anyway!
Alternately, if for whatever reason you'd prefer to stick with RHEL and have a small amount of $$ to spend:
https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/jboss_developer_studio.html
Is a good option. No support, but full access to updates.
You could also easily switch over to a full support entitlement if you needed support on the system later.
Nothing wrong with the CentOS route of course. :)
Ray
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