[CentOS] Re: Fedora Legacy shutting down

Sun Jan 7 20:28:31 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> I maintain a RHL 7.3 system; what's involved in switching it to 
>> CentOS2.1?
> 
> 
> My sympathies go out to you. :-)
> 
>>
>> I  presume I need to replace the /etc/releases file, the yum 
>> configuration and (maybe) force-reinstall some upgrades
> 
> 
> I have never actually tried to do the upgrade but years ago when RHEL (then
> called 2.1AS) was new, I used a 7.3 system to build the 2.1AS rpms. The
> biggest problem I had was that some of the 7.3 packages were newer then the
> 2.1AS packages. IIRC 2.1AS was based off of RHL 7.2.
> 
> I suspect that trying to do the upgrade from 7.3 to CentOS2.1, _might_ 
> leave
> you with some packages not up to date.


Those I can identify at my leisure and apply a little force to. 
Possibly, some were new in RHL 7.3.



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