[CentOS-devel] C6.6 to C7.0 upgrade report

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/12/2014 11:30 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 04:43 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> I just tried out the upgrade tool to upgrade a server from C6.6 to C7.0.
>> Unfortunately the server doesn't some up any more.  Screenshot:
>>
>> http://www.cora.nwra.com/~orion/Screenshot_mailmirror_2014-12-11_16:37:55.png
>>
>> Doesn't get past Welcome to CentOS Linux 7 other than printing something about
>> a dependency cycle.
>>
>> Will have to look around more tomorrow.
>>
> 
> FWIW - I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173713 to say
> that the upgrade tool needs to use distro-sync.  It's fundamentally broken
> without it.

With much egg on my face now, it appears that the redhat tools take these
issues into account and fix them.  See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174335 for some more details.
Looks like the CentOS upgrade tool has a ways to go towards implementing the
upstream process.


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