On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:35 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:09:08PM +0800, John Summerfield enlightened us: > > > >>Matt Hyclak wrote: > >> > >>>>>Won't this also cause problems when upgrading to the next release? > >>>> > >>>>Of course it will. :-( > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Not with proper exclude= lines in your configuration it won't. After all, > >>>since you made the centos-release package yourself, you can control what > >>>goes in that file, so an exclude line should be trivial. > >>> > >> > >>Eh? > >>Doesn't Anaconda look at the release file to see what it's supposed to > >>upgrade _from_? If it doesn't recognise it, how will it know how to upgrade? > > > > > > Have we moved away from yum into respun CDs? > > > > No, I was thinking of the upgrade many folk will want to do to CentOS 5. > > If folk are creating alternative release packages I wonder whether they > will create problems for themselves at that time. > > While Anaconda has an argument to force it to upgrade, and it would > almost certainly work upgrading CentOS4 (or even WBEL) to CentOS5, it's > not the sort of thing people should use in the ordinary course of events. > pretty sure red hat doesn't support upgrades between major release versions. so I can't imagine it'll be supported in anything from 4 -> 5. -sv