[Centos] RHEL 4 => CentOS 4

Mon Jan 17 11:45:05 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:35 +0100, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 11:25 +0100, Michiel van Es wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>I would like to try to switch from CentOS 3.4 => CentOS 4 beta.
> >>
> >>I hava a couple of questions:
> >>
> >>-is possible to upadte/upgrade my test box from 3.4 => 4 and what are 
> >>the yum.conf settings/requirements?
> > 
> > 
> > I tried with yum, it didn't work out very well.  Since python and rpm
> > have major upgrades in the process it doesn't go well.  I was able to
> > get the upgrade done, but the end result was not as user friendly as I
> > would like.
> 
> so I noticed :(
> 
> > 
> > 
> >>-is it easy to update your CentOS 4 beta => CentOS 4 when the stable 
> >>version comes out?
> > 
> > 
> > When I used anaconda the results were much better.  At the first
> > isolinux prompt, type the command:
> > 
> > linux upgradeany
> > 
> > And then pick upgrade the CentOS install.
> > 
> > This method worked OK for 4 test installs that I upgraded.  (x86
> > workstation, x86 server, x86_64 workstation, x86_64 server).
> > 
> > So, my recommendation, use anaconda and not yum to do the upgrade.
> > 
> > I expect the RHEL final to be released soon...they have removed all the
> > files from the RHN RHEL4 Beta Channels.  That is exactly what they did
> > before the last release of RHEL 3.  You might want to wait unless this
> > is a test machine.
> 
> Well..perhaps it is better to switch to the Final then..but will the 
> upgrade to 4 Final be much better with yum then the 4 beta?

I'm not sure if the yum upgrade will be any easier ... but we can detail
a procedure to do it. But as I said before, the anaconda upgrade was
much more user friendly, and it had more consistent final results (only
CentOS-4 packages, not as many stray CentOS-3 things left over, etc.)

Johnny Hughes