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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list