How hard would it be to upgrade from CentOs 5 beta to the released version? Would it be as simple as a yum upgrade or would I have to upgrade via booting from cd/dvd/pxe ?
Pardon my ignorance if this has been asked already
-Eric
eric@austinconventioncenter.com spake the following on 3/28/2007 5:52 AM:
How hard would it be to upgrade from CentOs 5 beta to the released version? Would it be as simple as a yum upgrade or would I have to upgrade via booting from cd/dvd/pxe ?
Pardon my ignorance if this has been asked already
-Eric
Upgrades are not guaranteed. If you can wait, Centos 5 will probably be out in 2 weeks or so. At least that is what it seemed to take for V4 from freeze to release.
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 07:52 -0500, eric@austinconventioncenter.com wrote:
How hard would it be to upgrade from CentOs 5 beta to the released version? Would it be as simple as a yum upgrade or would I have to upgrade via booting from cd/dvd/pxe ?
Pardon my ignorance if this has been asked already
-Eric
It is looking now like an upgrade is going to be fairly easy ... but will require you to remove at least one package (linuxwacom-devel) by hand. This package was removed upstream.
Also take care of at least one group of packages manually (Image-Magick*) as they were labeled as .fc6 in the Beta and are .el5 in the release (aslo done upstream).
There may be more as we test ... but it seems that it will be fairly easy to upgrade the beta to Final.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
There may be more as we test ... but it seems that it will be fairly easy to upgrade the beta to Final.
Beware of the dbus error: If you upgrade under X dbus tries to reload a config file which it cannot read anymore, because of changes in it. This will *terminate* your X session and leave you with loads of duplicate packages. This at least happens if SELinux is enabled.
This is the same error as http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218207
So *DO NOT* upgrade under X.
Ralph
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 07:52 -0500, eric@austinconventioncenter.com wrote:
How hard would it be to upgrade from CentOs 5 beta to the released version? Would it be as simple as a yum upgrade or would I have to upgrade via booting from cd/dvd/pxe ?
Pardon my ignorance if this has been asked already
-Eric
It is looking now like an upgrade is going to be fairly easy ... but will require you to remove at least one package (linuxwacom-devel) by hand. This package was removed upstream.
Also take care of at least one group of packages manually (Image-Magick*) as they were labeled as .fc6 in the Beta and are .el5 in the release (aslo done upstream).
There may be more as we test ... but it seems that it will be fairly easy to upgrade the beta to Final.
it'd be _very_ useful to document these in the release and/or update notes!
It is looking now like an upgrade is going to be fairly easy ... but will require you to remove at least one package (linuxwacom-devel) by hand. This package was removed upstream.
Also take care of at least one group of packages manually (Image-Magick*) as they were labeled as .fc6 in the Beta and are .el5 in the release (aslo done upstream).
Does this mean that effective the existing Centos 5 Beta (4.92) will be the same as the final Centos 5 release? i.e. whatever works in beta will be working in 5 and whatever isn't will still not be working?
On 4/2/07, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
Cen Tos wrote:
Does this mean that effective the existing Centos 5 Beta (4.92) will be the same as the final Centos 5 release? i.e. whatever works in beta will be working in 5 and whatever isn't will still not be working?
Ermm, no?
Why not? I'm not doubting you.
But just want to find out what else influences the situation apart from the fact, or so I infer from Johnny's message, that the files are all largely going to be the same except for a couple of renames?
Cen Tos wrote:
On 4/2/07, Ralph Angenendt <[1]ra+centos@br-online.de> wrote:
Cen Tos wrote: > Does this mean that effective the existing Centos 5 Beta (4.92) > will be the same as the final Centos 5 release? i.e. whatever works > in beta will be working in 5 and whatever isn't will still not be > working? Ermm, no?Why not? I'm not doubting you. But just want to find out what else influences the situation apart from the fact, or so I infer from Johnny's message, that the files are all largely going to be the same except for a couple of renames?
Well, maybe you want to define what you mean by "whatever isn't working will still not be working". The difference between beta and release is *huge*.
I'm just saying that this isn't so.
Ralph
On 4/2/07, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
Well, maybe you want to define what you mean by "whatever isn't working will still not be working". The difference between beta and release is *huge*.
I'm just saying that this isn't so.
Sorry for the ambiguity, what I meant is simply like if a particular chipset isn't supported/working in beta, then I shouldn't expect it to be supported and working in release since nothing would had been changed apart from file names.
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