On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:18 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to swap the yum.conf from my centos box onto my whitebox > box and have the whitebox machine use centos updates through yum? CentOS > seems further ahead and far quicker at roll outs than whitebox? > > thanks > > There are a couple other things to worry about ... centos-release, the yum configuration, importing the key we use to sign packages, etc. here is a guide from going to centos-3 from wbel-3 ... doing it for centos-4 is similar ... look for RPMS in the /4/ hive and not the /3/ hive ... use the centos-4 signing key, not the centos-3 one ... there is no centos-yumcache in centos-4. CentOS-4 has a /etc/yum.conf AND a /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory with a file named CentOS-Base.repo, there is a whitebox file in /etc/yum.repos.d that you would want to remove. Other than that, the method is the same: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19 I might recommend that you also do: rpm -e whitebox-release -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051007/f07a18b7/attachment-0005.sig>