[CentOS-docs] C6 to 7 upgrade tool testing & documentation

Sun Jul 27 08:46:54 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 07/27/2014 06:24 AM, Bert wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Referring
> to http://seven.centos.org/2014/07/testing-centos-6-to-centos-7-upgrades-via-centos-testing-repo/
> Section 3: Document the process of using the current RPMs from the
> Testing Repo to actually perform CentOS-6.5 to CentOS-7 upgrades
> 
> What's being requested here exactly?
> 
> I'd be happy to submit a HOWTO for creating a Yum Repo, installing the
> tools (CLI-only), running the tool, and checking the reports the tool
> spits out.  I would also propose to include in the HOWTO some stuff on
> checking RPMdb for packages from third-party Repo's (EPEL, RPMForge,
> etc) and services to chkconfig off while performing the upgrade.
> 
> Please advise whether this is worthwhile, and where to submit it.

very much worthwhile, send it here to the list ( but also create a wiki
username in FirstnameLastname format - using a real name! ), and we can
get page edit rights etc setup

- KB


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