[CentOS] upgrade from 6.5 to 7

Wed Jul 9 00:02:30 UTC 2014
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>


On 07/08/2014 05:03 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
> 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.
> 



There is. It's not ready yet, and requires a fair amount of patch work.
If someone would like to take on the challenge, details live here ->
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-July/011277.html


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