[CentOS] Fedora Legacy shutting down

Sun Jan 7 20:25:37 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> Jay Leafey wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't see anything on the list about this over the holidays and 
>>> thought it might be of some interest:
>>>
>>>     
>>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-December/msg00049.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> Lots of discussion around this topic on the fedora-legacy-list.
>>
>>
>> I maintain a RHL 7.3 system; what's involved in switching it to 
>> CentOS2.1?
>>
>> I  presume I need to replace the /etc/releases file, the yum 
>> configuration and (maybe) force-reinstall some upgrades
> 
> 
> Just curious about why you'd choose to do that rather than upgrade to 
> the latest 3.x or 4.x release.  Do you have some canned binaries that 
> won't run on a more recent vintage system even with the compatibility libs?

Because it's probably the easiest transition to something supported. 
RHAS is more-or-less RHL 7.2, and in my ignorance I think it the likely 
source for most RHL 7.3 fixes over time. It's the first place I would 
look. If the transition is likely to work, it should do so with a 
minimum of fuss and bother - binaries are compatible, for example, and 
might not even require a reboot (except maybe to change kernels).

An upgrade to a newer release at some point is likely, but not on that 
physical box.




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John

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