I have a system that was originally installed with RHEL 3 x86_64, and I've since 'updated' it to CentOS 3 via installing yum and centos-release, then running a yum update.
is there any way I can force -all- installed packages to be replaced with their centos analogs just to be sure its all consistent?
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
I have a system that was originally installed with RHEL 3 x86_64, and I've since 'updated' it to CentOS 3 via installing yum and centos-release, then running a yum update.
is there any way I can force -all- installed packages to be replaced with their centos analogs just to be sure its all consistent?
When using apt-get you can do:
apt-get install --reinstall $(rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | grep -v gpg-pubkey)
it requires that you have all packages available from repositories. If not you will have to exclude those packages too (using grep -v).
Would this be a good way to go to update to 5?
I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5.
on 2-3-2009 2:35 PM Thom Paine spake the following:
Would this be a good way to go to update to 5?
I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5.
It is never recommended to upgrade major versions. You might get away with it, and you might spend even more time chasing problems.
Scott Silva wrote:
on 2-3-2009 2:35 PM Thom Paine spake the following:
Would this be a good way to go to update to 5?
I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5.
It is never recommended to upgrade major versions. You might get away with it, and you might spend even more time chasing problems.
Except maybe on OpenSolaris (personal experience) and from what I hear Debian (that does not mean nor include Ubuntu).
/me scurries back to hiding hole.
on 2-3-2009 4:31 PM Christopher Chan spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 2-3-2009 2:35 PM Thom Paine spake the following:
Would this be a good way to go to update to 5?
I would consider this. I have a couple of 3 boxes I'd like to get to 5.
It is never recommended to upgrade major versions. You might get away with it, and you might spend even more time chasing problems.
Except maybe on OpenSolaris (personal experience) and from what I hear Debian (that does not mean nor include Ubuntu).
/me scurries back to hiding hole.
Since the OP actually mentioned RHEL to CentOS...
/me Sends the hounds in after him! ;-P
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