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. :-)
Actually an RH 7.3 with its last updates is an incredibly solid
system. I have a one (firewalled, I don't think I'd trust it
on the internet) doing quite a bit of work that hasn't been
rebooted in 3+ years - I've forgotten exactly because the uptime
counter had a bug and rolls every 497 days.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
Is there some reason to use Centos 2.x instead of 3.x? I don't see
any showstopper issues between everything I have running on 7.3
and Centos 3, although I'd probably install from scratch and
back in my old configs instead of expecting an upgrade to work.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com