[CentOS] Switch from SL -> Centos

[Eric Viseur]

CentOS has the complete RHEL binary compatibility, which SL doesn't always
have.  Can be a decisive thing, sometimes.

2011/7/12 夜神 岩男 <supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp>

> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 14:17 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
> > >
> > > Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and
> > > redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo
> > >
> > > rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos
> > > rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm
> > > centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm
> > >
> > > yum update
> > >
> > > reboot, and voilà
> > >
> >
> > The above would only update a package if the centos repos had a higher
> > version number than the installed SL one.... 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....
> >
> > In the event something crops up it at least eliminates an odd untested
> > mix for certain fundamental packages like glibc etc....
>
> An idle question:
>
> What is the advantage of switching to CentOS 6 if you already are
> running SL6? Or at least... what is the purpose? I'm not really clear on
> the difference (other than CentOS is the noisier bit of the party).
>
> -Iwao
>
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