[CentOS] Moving from whitebox 4.2 to centos

Mon Oct 31 16:03:28 UTC 2005
Nick Wales <nick at nexusproductions.com>

Thanks Mike, worked on two machines now without even needing to --force

Mike Kercher wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>>[mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nick Wales
>>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:09 AM
>>To: centos at centos.org
>>Subject: [CentOS] Moving from whitebox 4.2 to centos
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>>I've been following the faq for moving from whitebox to 
>>centos (which admittedly is for release 3, but using the 
>>equivalent release 4 files) and keep getting stuck when 
>>installing the centos-release-4-2.1 rpm which says it should 
>>replace whitebox-release4.2
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>>However this is not happening, giving me the following
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>>rpm -Uvh
>>http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-r
>>elease-4-2.1.i386.rpm
>>Retrieving
>>http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-r
>>elease-4-2.1.i386.rpm
>>error: Failed dependencies:
>>        /etc/whitebox-release is needed by (installed)
>>initscripts-7.93.11.EL-1.WB1.i386
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>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Thanks
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>>Nick
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>Try downloading the initscripts for Centos and install it at the same time.
>I've had to --force the -release rpm before too.
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>Mike
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