[CentOS] upgrade from 6.5 to 7
Tim Evans
tkevans at tkevans.com
Tue Jul 8 22:03:31 UTC 2014
On 07/08/2014 05:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/8/2014 2:03 PM, Wes James wrote:
>> I installed centos 6.5 from a dvd. Now that 7 is out, I'l like to try it. I tried:
>>
>> sudo yum clean all && sudo yum update
>>
>> but it said there were no updates. Is there a command-line way to upgrade from 6.5 to 7?
>
> yum update will only update packages in the current version, not switch
> to a completely new version.
>
> 7 is structurally different enough, with systemd and so forth, that you
> will want to do a virgin fresh install.
>
Can't locate it today, but I found info earlier that there would be a
6.5->7.0 upgrade path at some point in the future. Sounded pretty much
like the old Fedora preupgrade + something like fedup.
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