[CentOS] Re: Migration question?
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Aug 31 13:41:13 UTC 2007
Carl Boberg wrote:
> Hell Karanbir!
>
> Thanks for your reply and yes, that was all that was needed! Only one
> additional small thing is to remove the "rhnplugin" from yum (not
> necessary but gives an error msg)
>
> I tried to figure this out by looking at RHEL 3/4 -> Centos3/4 guides
> and testing it out on a test machine and that was NOT a working solution
> :)
>
> Thanks again and now I have alot of machines to change :)
> Cheers
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
>> Sent: den 30 augusti 2007 19:35
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Migration question?
>>
>> Carl Boberg wrote:
>>> My question is if anyone have any tips/tricks regarding online
>>> migration from RHEL to Centos, especially between ver. 5?
>> All that you should need to do is install centos-release,
>> remove redhat-release rpms and just yum update the machine,
>> which should bring in all packages changed by CentOS ( since
>> they will have a slightly higher E-V-R ).
>>
>> End of Migration.
>>
>> Disclaimer: i've not tested this since there are no rhel
>> machines near me, anywhere.
>>
try not top-posting please.
also, now that you have done this - would you like to write a wiki page
for everyone else who comes along with the same issue ? we have a
moderately active wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/ and there is a howto
contribute page that lists the process.
- KB
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