On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 06/01/16 13:02, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > On 06/01/16 11:53, Trevor Hemsley wrote: > >> Please note THIS TOOL IS BROKEN and should NOT be used. > >> > > can we quantify this a bit ? > > > > > > The issues have been discussed before but there are many critical > packages in CentOS 6 that are already at a higher version than the > equivalent ones in CentOS 7. These do not get upgraded and because they > do not, various little things like yum itself do not work at all but > bail out with missing libs, missing symbols etc. Hughesjr put out a call > on the mailing list for volunteers to help fix it but the silence has > been deafening and no work has been done. > > Last time I looked a sample of the packages concerned were openldap*, > nss* and several others that are used by just about everything. Any > attempt to use the tool on a CentOS 6.6/6.7 and maybe 6.5 system is > pretty much doomed to fail and even if the upgrade is "successful" it's > likely the system will either refuse to boot or that many things will > just not run afterwards. > > There is (was?) also a bug in grubby that failed to deal with grub > legacy on el7 so any future kernel updates added a new kernel to the > system that would not boot. > > Trevor > _______________________________________________ > Hello, I think CentOS should concentrate on only what supported in Red Hat too. So we should focus on these two solutions: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583 and https://access.redhat.com/solutions/799813 and the equivalent CentOS packages and groups, inherited by related RH channels In particular this would mean only > 6.5 Server based installations on x86_64 and: OK for Minimal (@minimal) Base (@base) Web Server (@web-server) DHCP Server File Server (@nfs-server) Print Server KO for All others Gianluca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20160106/b7f2f2a3/attachment-0008.html>