Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:31:36 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > [....] >> Ah fair enough - just wanted to give a heads up (and point to the yum >> reinstall option) in case anyone decided to do similar. > > Yo! I want to do exactly that -- shift a machine running SL > (whose list is not on Gmane, oddly) to CentOS, if possible without losing > my tweaks nor my data. > > But I'm confused. Your advice : > > I would strongly suggest something akin to yum reinstall \* and leave it > to chug away (backups first naturally) for a while to refresh all the > packages and teh rpm database to be in sync with the centos build..... > requires matching, same build options for sure etc etc.... > > is Geek to me.what is "\*"? What rpm database? The one on my machine? > What's in the repos? Or ....? What are build options? (I don't do things > like make and install, because I'm not competent to recover from bloopers > -- and I have a sneakin' hunch build is among those things.) What does > etc., etc. include? > > Might there be a web site somewhere with a pons asinorum for the > subtechnoid? > 1. Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo 2. rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos 3. rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm \ centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm 4. yum reinstall \* 5. reboot, and voilà Ljubomir